C. I. Scofield Quotes

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.

Privacy is not negotiable.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

Enthusiasm is life.

If you aren’t nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way.