"For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge."

-- Jose James

#Reading Quotes #Eye Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Every single person wants to do it, don't hate me because I had the guts to follow my heart!”
“When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.”
“Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.”
“The past is more than a memory.”

Source : "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”
“Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.”

Source : Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press
“That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.”
“Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.”

Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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