"I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck."

-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Ducks Quotes #Knees Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.”
“Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.”
“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courtingâ€™. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.”
“Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of things, but it tells you something different. Something happy might be going on, but there can be this little sad tinge underneath that tells you something.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.”
“Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.”
“I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.”

Source : Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.
“God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.”

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