"I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!"

-- Eva Jessye

#Music Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.”
“Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.”
“You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?”
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”

Source : "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".
“Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.”
“People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.”
“Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.”
“It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.”

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