Will Allison Quotes

Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.

Dance brings out the best in me and makes me feel infinite. It helps me relax and express myself, and it clears my head. Plus, dance keeps me fit!

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them.

I'm afraid of flying.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

I trust other people to tell me if it's too far or tasteless, because there's not too much that I won't do. I like to push the limits. Obviously, that's more dangerous and more fun for everybody.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.