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Roy Haynes

"There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well."

-- Roy Haynes

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“Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”
“I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 92, 1971.
“There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.”
“Just because I'm married to Doug doesn't mean I can't be here for you.”
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.”

Source : "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.
“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”
“Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”
“People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.”

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