#star

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#day #desperately #die #every #every night

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #banner #bus #elected #france

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#also #exploding #finally #first #happens

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener. ↗

— Carla Bley

#best #end #every #gallery #got

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#fame #i #i think #often #people

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ↗

— Alex Haley

#grandparents #little #little children #lives #nobody

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#christmas #expecting #fell #first #friend

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. ↗

— Carla Bley

#father #free #got #i #instead

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. ↗

— Carla Bley

#best #circle #come #full #i

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#bad habits #certain #fall #habits #i