"Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response to what's happening, and everything else after that, your brain is involved because you have something to reference."

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Jose James

#Real Quotes #Brain Quotes #Important Quotes

“You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.”
“White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.”
“Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.647, Everyman's Library
“The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.”
“Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.”
“You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat”
“Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.”
“Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.”

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