"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."

Leader, Sound, Writer

41

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."

Exlpore more Leader quotes

"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right."

Ziggy Marley, Jamaican Musician

Leader, Artist, Leaders, Right

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

Arnold H. Glasow, American Humorist

Leader, Blame, Credit, Arnold H. Glasgow

"Fish recognize a bad leader."

Conan O'Brien, American Entertainer

Leader, Fish

"But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get."

David Kay, American Scientist

Leader, Confidence, Will

"As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies."

David Kay, American Scientist

Leader, Effort, Leading, Trying

"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

Leader, Authority, Respect

"It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier."

Ian Mckellen, English Actor

Leader, Gay, Reality

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."

Adolf Hitler, German Criminal

Leader, Genius, Ability, Opponents

"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

Leader, Courage, Hope, America

"Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in."

Stone Gossard, American Musician

Leader, Control, Being

Explore more quotes by Norman Granz

"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

Development

"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."

Talking

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

State

"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

Europe

"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."

People

"The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups."

Sales

"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."

Audience

"I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now."

Fans

"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."

Business

"Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents."

Work