"Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost."

-- Albert Ayler

#Music Quotes #Father Quotes #Son Quotes

“I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.”

Source : Pam Houston (1993). “Cowboys are My Weakness: Stories”
“I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.”
“There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.”
“The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.”
“To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.”
“Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.”
“I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.”
“I would like immortality.”

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