Charlie Trotter Quotes & Sayings
61 most famous Charlie Trotter quotes and sayings (celebrity). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.”
“Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.”
“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”
“Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.”
“My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'”
“I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.”
“I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.”
“I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.”
“Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.”
“Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.”
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