Top 114 Quotes by James McBride

About James McBride

These are some quotes by American author James McBride Writer, who was born in 1957.

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

James McBride

My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.

My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.

James McBride

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

James McBride

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

James McBride

I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

James McBride

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

James McBride

You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

James McBride

A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

James McBride

The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway.

James McBride

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

James McBride

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