And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
Quotes about forties (16 Quotes)
I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
It will be hard to beat anyone when we are just scoring in the forties. We need our role players to maybe step up and make a few more plays.
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
We have a very, very young team with some good senior leaders. I thought coming into today that we could finish in the high forties, but we performed above what I thought we were capable of and that's a testament to the athletes on this team.
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
We're trying to hit current, pop, alternative music that's appealing to kids in their teens as well as those in their thirties and forties.
For us there is something necessary about keeping a cross-pollination of ideas. The people we started working with are now in their forties and fifties. We are all constantly thinking about how to reinvent ourselves the Rhino helps us do that. There's a pretty healthy balance between young and old.
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
Men in their forties are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle tricky, complicated, and you're never really sure you got the right answer. Carrie.