Quotes about Opinion, page 17

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

Quote by Christopher Parker about opinion

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it...

Quote by Gilbert Parker about opinion

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Quote by Gilbert Parker about opinion

A hundred years from now the garage wines won't be a separate category. They will be up and down the Medoc.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about opinion

A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions, the textures, the flavors, the smells, they just jump out at me.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about opinion

Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about opinion

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about opinion

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about opinion

If this wine's no good, I'm gonna say so.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about opinion

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about opinion

So many roads, so many detours, so many choices. So many mistakes.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about opinion