"Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano."

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Source : All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 18, 2003.

Horace Silver

#Morning Quotes #Eight Quotes #Piano Quotes

“The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.”
“The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.”
“A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.”
“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.”
“God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.”
“I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.”
“He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.”
“Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.”

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