"Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation."

-- Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

#Light Quotes #Water Quotes #Towers Quotes

“A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.”
“Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.”
“I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses. At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home. And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.”
“I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.”

Source : "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.
“What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.”
“The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.”

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