"You can separate the men from the boys and ballads."

-- Coleman Hawkins

#Music Quotes #Men Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Drinking is a way of ending the day.”
“I don't really get recognised very much.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.
“I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.”
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
“I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.”
“The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (â€œTomorrowâ€)”
“Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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