I Can Quotes - Page 36

• The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Feelings, Singing

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, Color, Mind

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• I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great combination of the traditional vernacular with his own. Hearing it unfold and being in a position to participate was a great pleasure. Part of being an accompanist is that the stronger the soloist, the more I can do all that I know to do. So, Joe was as good as it gets.

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Profound, Good As It Gets

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• I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune and then the pianist has to solo, I am looking to everybody to get to a certain climate and then I come back in while the energy is up high. Somehow that doesn't happen.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Play, California

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• At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Mother, Simple

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• The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Meaningful, Athlete

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• I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

  Debi Thomas

  Motivational, Athlete, Winter

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• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Pain, Athlete

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• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

  Rafer Johnson

  Motivational, Athlete, Effort

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• I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

  Eric Heiden

  Motivational, Nice, Athlete

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• I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

  Ayn Rand

  Years, Games, Political

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• Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."

  Vitaly Sevastyanov

  Space, Half, World

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• I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

  Sisqo

  Friendship, Life Is, Without You

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• One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

  Patrice Motsepe

  Happiness, Perfection, High Standards

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• I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2010). “At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

  Rowan Williams

  Jesus, Names, Perspective

  "New archbishop issues warning on Iraq" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Football, Believe

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

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• My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

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• If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Motivational, Sports, Nfl

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• So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.

  Valerie Estelle Frankel

  Fear, Heart, Patterns

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• I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

  Sandra Lee

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Today

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• Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

  Frank Frazetta

  Art, Way, One Thing

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• I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

  John Entwistle

  Rap, People, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Sports, Dog

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