"Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail."

-- Jimmy Heath

#Art Quotes #Player Quotes #Cells Quotes

“The rule is: donâ€™t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
“It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.”
“I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.”

Source : Interview with Kim Tranell, www.seventeen.com. September 14, 2011.
“Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.”
“I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.”
“Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.”
“The power of giving is instantaneous, continuous and eternal.”

Source : Azim Jamal (2012). “Business, Balance & Beyond”, p.129, Jaico Publishing House

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