"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to."

-- Geoff Dyer

#Errors Quotes #Tunes Quotes #Never Quit Quotes

“A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.”
“My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.”
“In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?”
“I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.”
“I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.”
“In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.”
“I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.”
“Fear and hope are alike underneath.”

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