"Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere."

-- Randy Weston

#Past Quotes #Negative Quotes #World Quotes

“I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder”
“I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.”

Source : "The sweetheart deal". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.
“I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.”
“Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.”

Source : Karen Cushman (1996). “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“These poems need to be released from their cages,”
“It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.”
“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
“I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.”

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