"When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music."

-- Stan Getz

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Dedication Quotes

“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.89, Penguin
“A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party”

Source : Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books
“We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.”

Source : 1976 'Now Let Us Address The Main Question: Bicentennial of What?', in the NewYork Times, 3 Jul.
“Every great love starts with a great story...”
“I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 06, 2014
“The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.”
“When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.”
“Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.”

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