"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."

-- Dizzy Gillespie

#Play Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Composition Quotes

“Never give advice in a crowd.”
“I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening.”
“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”

Source : "The World of the Atom". Book by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, January 21, 1966.
“And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.”
“I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.”
“Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.”
“An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.”

Source : "Frank Buckles: America's Last Living World War I Veteran". www.tbo.com. February 6, 2008.

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