Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
Toots Thielemans
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every...
CARLOS SANTANA I never promised you a rose garden
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every...
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Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
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It is a lie.
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Come out of the rose garden.
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If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly c...
BUDDY RICH At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t...
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.
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A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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A daisy in a garden fits in; a rose in a desert stands out.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it want...
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Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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MOBY In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz m...
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STEPHEN HESS As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.
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PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
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She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM I am my own woman.
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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an impro...
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Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
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each d...
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Life is a school of probability.
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This life is a process of learning.
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Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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Life is a grand party.
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WOODY ALLEN Being a teenager is hard.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an...
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MANFRED MANN He is very respectful of the obligations we have as a Legislature, ... The basic tenor of his statem...
TOM FEENEY I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like...
TOM WAITS it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
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BETTY FRIEDAN ...everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.
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Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for...
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A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS 
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. 
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in... 
You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if yo... 
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i... 
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. 
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. 
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. 
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every... 
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every... 
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. 
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
It is a lie. 
Come out of the rose garden. 
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly c... 
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. 
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones 
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... 
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky 
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... 
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... 
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... 
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... 
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. 
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... 
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... 
They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to... 
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. 
A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. 
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. 
A daisy in a garden fits in; a rose in a desert stands out. 
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it want... 
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on to... 
When the candles are out all women are fair 
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way... 
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. 
She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fra... 
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him... 
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ... 
I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an impro... 
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)... 
Life is a school of probability. 
This life is a process of learning. 
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. 
Everybody in life is a chameleon. 
I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... 
Life is a grand party. 
That of a musician, but a musician playing in small jazz clubs or alone. I do not give concerts. I c... 
I enjoy being a girl. 
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been inf... 
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an... 
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like... 
The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to... 
The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ... 
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so. 
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm