"[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it."

-- Kurt Elling

#Music Quotes #Singing Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”
“I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage”
“I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!”
“Iâ€™ve always felt that night doesnâ€™t fall. Night rises.”
“When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.”
“On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.”
“People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.”

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