"This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing."

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Source : "A Fireside Chat With Roy Haynes". Interview with Fred Jung, www.allaboutjazz.com. November 29, 2003.

Roy Haynes

#Long Quotes #Break Quotes #Performing Quotes

“A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.”
“Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.”
“Cocaine is totally different than steroids.”
“Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale and fitful face The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace Through skies the morning scarce may climb. Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears, But lit with hopes that light the year's.”
“Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.”
“My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.”
“Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.”
“I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.”

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