"Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies."

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Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

Kenny Werner

#Lying Quotes #Doors Quotes #Self Quotes

“My goal onstage is to always have people leave feeling that they received something very special, an inspired feeling that they can take with them and into their lives. That's what the artists I love have always done for me and that's what I have always admired and tried to emulate in my own performances. I still believe that music stands alone in its power to communicate "spirit", whatever that might mean to any given fan. It's a mystery and it's something I still find so exciting and challenging at the same time.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net
“My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.”
“Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.”
“If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.332, University of Michigan Press
“I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.”
“Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.”

Source : "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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