"Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free."

-- Stan Kenton

#Play Quotes #Worry Quotes #People Quotes

“White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.”

Source : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin
“Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.”
“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
“I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.”
“I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.”
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”

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