"I think I had it in the back……" — Paul Desmond

"I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini."

— Paul Desmond

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16 Quotes by Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what…
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and…
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's…
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys…
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and…
It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and…
We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

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More Dry Quotes

This quote is filed under Dry Quotes, one of 1,049 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty… — Ansel Adams
If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make… — Mario Batali
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley
I have never left another senator out to dry. Never. — Joe Biden
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you… — Mel Brooks
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that… — Alton Brown
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry… — Robert Browning
It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own… — Kobe Bryant
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never… — Pearl S. Buck
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of… — Warren Buffett
When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought… — Gisele Bundchen
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of… — Bliss Carman

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