"I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them."

-- Earl Hines

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.”
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.”
“I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.”
“Buy me stuff and I'll be nicer”
“Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the cityâ€™s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.”
“Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.”

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“Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

Source : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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