"With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face."

“You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.”

“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”

“Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

“My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.”

“The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.115, eBookIt.com

“Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.”

“My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.”