Lester Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
— Sally Phillips
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path…
— Cameron Crowe
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From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music. He called me…
— Marty Stuart
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I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those…
— Charles Mingus
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I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A…
— Count Basie
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In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so…
— Billie Holiday
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
— Billie Holiday
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I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always…
— Sonny Rollins
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I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was…
— Kate Simon
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I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at…
— David Oyelowo
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I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum…
— Nick Moran
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We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they…
— Gale Sayers
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At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Have you told Eric and the rest of them that—†“That I’m a vampire? No. It isn’t the sort of thing you just drop into…
— Cassandra Clare
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I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
— Ashley Madekwe
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
— Malcolm McDowell
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Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
— Sebastian Coe
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Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in…
— Willard Boyle
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When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
— Steve Largent
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In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
— Lee Konitz
Who Wrote These Lester Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Lester Quotes as follows: