"The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night long. It's not too cold in that bed, and it ain't too hot. But what's the matter? The blues has got you."

-- Huddie William Ledbetter

#Night Quotes #Long Quotes #Bed Quotes

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
“I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.”
“"Facilitate my thinking" means thinking about who I am as a human being in relation to the world around me. It's how I position myself, how I navigate through this world. That to me is thinking. It is also exhausting to constantly be making art that in some ways responds to the conditions of the world around you. I gave myself permission to turn all of that off, and to lose myself in work.”
“Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians.”
“Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.”
“From a mathematical standpoint it is possible to have infinite space. In a mathematical sense space is manifoldness, or combinations of numbers. Physical space is known as the 3-dimension system. There is the 4-dimension system, the 10-dimension system.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Source : "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.
“In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.”

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