David Klass quotes

“I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.14, Macmillan

#Play Quotes #Musical Quotes #Sound Quotes

“You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.”
-- David Klass

#Eye Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.7, Macmillan

#Past Quotes #May Quotes #My Future Quotes

“Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

#Mean Quotes #Doors Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.199, Macmillan

#Air Quotes #Dust Quotes #Rose Quotes

“You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.206, Macmillan

#Empty Quotes #Cleverness Quotes

“Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do”
-- David Klass

#Lonely Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2008). “Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy:”, p.381, Macmillan

#Hope Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Beacons Quotes

“Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do”
-- David Klass

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.216, Macmillan

#Lonely Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.”

“Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.”

“The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.”

“The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.”

“I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.”

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

“I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.”

“Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.”

“Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”

“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”