Ray Conniff quotes

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

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

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“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

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

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“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 Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“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?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“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.”

Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.

“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.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.76

“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.”