"Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing."

-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Names Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.”
“My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.”
“Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”
“Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.”
“Confusion is not an ignoble condition”

Source : Brian Friel (2013). “Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.393, Faber & Faber
“I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.”
“Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.”
“She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.”

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