Al Spalding Quotes

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.

Baseball is a man maker.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

The person seeing perfection is the Master.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.