"Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal."

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Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

Darryl Pinckney

#Europe Quotes #Musician Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.”
“In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”
“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2013). “Crown of Midnight”, p.125, A&C Black
“Why always "not yet"?Â Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?Â ”
“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 04, 2013
“I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.”
“So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
“The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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