Eric Dolphy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
-- Eric Dolphy

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Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.
-- Eric Dolphy

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My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you..
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

Eric Dolphy famous quotes

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