"Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going."

-- Gary Giddins

#Mean Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Nobody Knows Quotes

“This loneliness won't leave me alone.”

Source : Song: Dock Of The Bay, Album: Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
“Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.”
“The way is open, comrades, free as Space Alone is free. The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared for us on Earth And who have deposited in us the power That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.”
“We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.”
“With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.”
“Learnt a lot like timing, voice modulation from Mohanlal sir. He is perfect in everything.”
“Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

Source : Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”
“If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.”

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