"I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure."

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Source : "Max Roach, Master of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

Max Roach

#Roles Quotes #Resentment Quotes #Drummer Quotes

“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.”
“In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it.”
“The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity”
“Itâ€™s the little things that make us who we are in the bigger world.”
“Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily.”

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“I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.”
“The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.”

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