"Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!"

-- Jake Holmes

#Nails Quotes #Retail Quotes #Hammers Quotes

“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.”
“Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch”
“At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.”
“All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.”
“Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.”
“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”
“The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.”

Source : Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers
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