My early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally Charlie Parker and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend Dexter Gordon.


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JOAN RIVERS
It didn't go smoothly; it was the most contentious thing I've ever done.
RIVERS CUOMO
I don't know what next year will bring. I have no idea. I can tell you I have a lot of ideas for son...
RIVERS CUOMO
It's up in the air, ... But in my mind, it's up in the air for every artist. Who knows, really, if t...
RIVERS CUOMO
Once he gets in and just plays natural, be himself, he's going to do great. I like this guy. He's no...
MICKEY RIVERS
I like watching because that's my style of play, ... When he does what he does, I enjoy it.
MICKEY RIVERS
What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?
MICKEY RIVERS
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it migh...
JOHNNY RIVERS
These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring th...
FRANCINE RIVERS
a good actress with real pathos.
JOAN RIVERS
Our boys mean a lot to us. We've been hooked for some time.
ALLEN RIVERS
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hur...
JOAN RIVERS
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whethe...
RIVERS CUOMO
A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pu...
JOAN RIVERS
I felt comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into mys...
JOAN RIVERS
The message that is coming across from the media is clearly, 'Watch out, women, if you're ambitious....
CARYL RIVERS
I'm not sitting here all fired up like I've achieved something, ... I'm pleased that I've made some ...
PHILIP RIVERS
I'm sure there will be a different report every day for the next six months, and I'm not going to ge...
PHILIP RIVERS
That's not all on my shoulders, but I certainly feel like I can get in there and manage it and handl...
PHILIP RIVERS
We're in a beautiful place and we wanted to take advantage of that. The festival is serious ... and ...
BARRY RIVERS
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth...
CARYL RIVERS
The Emmys are flat-out fun.
MELISSA RIVERS
Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my jo...
RIVERS CUOMO
Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inabil...
FRANCINE RIVERS
She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No othe...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.
FRANCINE RIVERS
Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
FRANCINE RIVERS
None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren't just physical beings, that God had left a ...
FRANCINE RIVERS
The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. Th...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. T...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
FRANCINE RIVERS
She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regr...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vai...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond...
FRANCINE RIVERS
I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.
FRANCINE RIVERS
Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, o...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.
FRANCINE RIVERS
What does the body matter if the soul is dead?
FRANCINE RIVERS
Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus cou...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS