"The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things."

-- Art Farmer

#Play Quotes #Free Your Mind Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.”
“I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.”
“Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.”
“The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (2002). “Amelia's War”, p.259, Scholastic Inc.
“This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.”
“The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.”
“I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.”

Source : "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.
“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”

You may also like:

Art Blakey
Jazz Drummer
Curtis Fuller
Trombonist
Dizzy Gillespie
Bandleader
Donald Byrd
Jazz trumpeter
Gerry Mulligan
Saxophonist
Jackie McLean
Composer
Johnny Griffin
Tenor Saxophonist
Lee Morgan
Trumpeter
Milt Jackson