"That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone."

-- Charles Mingus

#Teacher Quotes #Mean Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.”

Source : Twitter post from May 24, 2013
“I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.”
“A happy family is but an ealier heaven.”
“Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”
“Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.”
“It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.”
“We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.”
“Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.”

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