Wayne Shorter Quotes

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.

Playing Michael Jackson's memorial service was one of the hardest things to do because it was literally a few days after he had passed, and Kenny Ortega, who was directing it all, was like 'You're gonna come out and sing.' So not only was I completely shaken up, I didn't know how I was gonna get through it.

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I done been to so many funerals.

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the right flowers and pictures, and simply trying to find the right way to say goodbye.

I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.

The day after my mom died I fly back to California and spend the three weeks before the California primary making arrangements for her cremation, planning and getting the house ready for a memorial service and covering political rallies in Southern California. The normalcy of work helps.

Funerals should celebrate a life.

We're a family with a pretty light sense of humor but, still, on the anniversary of my mom's passing we don't feel like getting 'colorful' and remembering her favorite foods. Every March 5th, the anniversary of her passing, we go to church and are sad for pretty much the rest of the day.

I had this struggle of, what do I do to make sure my brother is still part of everything that I do? As I was driving up to his funeral, it hit me. I'm going to wear his number.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

For the first two weeks after he passed, we were done as a band. We were just done. And because of the fans and Jimmy's parents and relatives and stuff like that, they just demanded that we continue on and spread the legacy that is, you know, the crazy James 'The Rev' Sullivan.

If you don't have any Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' will do it for you. It will explain everything. Even if you don't get it, it will still explain everything. That's how deep it is.