"The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed to. The challenge is to use all that in your own way, to personalize all that has come before you and all that is happening around you. To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved."

-- Dave Kikoski

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“Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.”
“We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.”

Source : Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.”
“Life is too frickin' crazy sometimes, it really is.... You never know what's going to happen, do you.”
“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”
“There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!”

Source : Song: Bravo
“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”

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