#ties

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#black #could #everybody #felt #fortunate

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#basie #black #count #course #drummers

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#band leader #because #concept #different #different personalities

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#celebrities #just #lot #maintain #meet

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#full #industry #our #owning #property

Cities are about juxtaposition. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#cities #juxtaposition

I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities. ↗

— Katie Price

#celebrities #friends #go #i #just

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life. ↗

— Anthony Principi

#communities #decisions #hosting #impact #importantly

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#disguises #insincere #period #personalities #sincerely

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ↗

— Giacomo Puccini

#artistic #awakening #faculties #high #inspiration