S. N. Parker Quotes

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

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.

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

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.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.

I really think the key to any movie is that you tell the story kind of in a fulsome way, with depth, with skill, and you will find your audience.

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

War is an admission of failure

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.

I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.

It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!