"I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz."

-- Sonny Rollins

#Inspiration Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe itâ€™s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.”
“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”
“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”
“The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.”
“Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?”
“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
“From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.”
“I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.”

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