"The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play."

-- Dizzy Gillespie

#Play Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Musician Quotes

“I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.”

Source : "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.
“I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in parts of the film based on the trailer, you almost anticipate and look forward to those moments based on having seen the trailer.”
“I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.”
“[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .”
“And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.83, Penguin
“I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.”
“Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.”
“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”

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