S. Jones Quotes

these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin

Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.

There is eloquence in screaming.

It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

I never felt like I had a mother.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.

I have a lot of girlfriends, but there's something that's so easy for me about hanging out with guys. It's fun, because I feel like they accept me right back, which is really nice.

Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

Timing is everything with relationships.

You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

I love going to weddings.