Don Pullen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.
-- Don Pullen

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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Don Pullen famous quotes

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