Ray Conniff famous quotes

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
-- Ray Conniff

#Father #Artist #Conversation

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
-- Ray Conniff

#Play #Trombone

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
-- Ray Conniff

#New York #Fun #Cities

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
-- Ray Conniff

#Broadway #Paradise #Restaurants

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
-- Ray Conniff

#Art #Differences #People

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.