Buddy Bolden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?
Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.
Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

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