Ed Gordon Quotes

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

The consumer is always right.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

Love is the very essence of life.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.