Home / Quotes / Quote by Nelson Riddle

Quote by Nelson Riddle

“He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.”

Quote by Nelson Riddle

Author

Nelson Riddle, born on June 1, 1921, was an accomplished composer and music producer from the United States. He made significant contributions to both film music and popular music, known for his unique musical style and exquisite arranging skills. more

You May Also Like

“I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.”

Author:Mel Torme

“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”

Film Fans Dad Performances My Dad Affair Movie Uncles Love Affair

Author:Mel Torme

“Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.”

Men Has Beens Left Magic He Man Void Advent Goodman Fill The Void

Author:Mel Torme

“Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.”

Heart Can Do Grace Please Stones

Author:John Owen

“The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.”

Men World Self Home Heaven Rooms Building Son Higher Worship Climbs Word Of God Idols Goddess Towers Dominion Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Contingency

Book:The works ...

Source: The works ...

“Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.”

Soul Eye Hours Compassion Watches Bears Absence Tenderness Everlasting One Hour

Book:Communion with God

Source: Communion with God

“Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.”

Soul Dies Christ Sin Blood Feet Sick Killing Lust Remedy Providence Sovereign Conqueror Mortification

Book:Temptation and Sin

Source: Temptation and Sin

“Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.”

Knows Looks Christ Prayer Duty Bears Holy Weak Add Believer Accepted Obedience Weed Imperfect Acceptable Iniquity Incense God's Presence

Author:John Owen

“I did not hear what I should have listened to.”

Should Should Have Should Have Listened

Book:Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity

Source: Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity

“No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.”

Men Doe Christ Glory Sight Hereafter

Book:THE GLORY OF CHRIST

Source: THE GLORY OF CHRIST