"Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Gary Giddins

#Art Quotes #Joy Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, Iâ€™m a great guy.”
“As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.”
“Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.”
“Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.207, Weiser Books
“Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.”

Source : Kenny Ausubel (2012). “Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature”, p.33, Chelsea Green Publishing
“Silence never yet betrayed any one!”
“Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.”
“Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.”

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