A.C. Davis Quotes

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I work to stay alive.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

I throw 70 miles an hour. That’s throwing like a girl.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, "God damnnnnn!"

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen."

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.