"I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning."

-- Phil Woods

#Warrior Quotes #Pride Quotes #Flames Quotes

“I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.”
“Either you have your dreams or you live your dreams.”
“When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.”
“There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.”
“However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swordsâ€¦I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work togetherâ€¦and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.”

Source : "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.
“I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.”
“"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?" "Who Cares?"”
“So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.”

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