"If you don't know what to play, play nothing."

-- Miles Davis

“Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.”
“You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.”
“If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?”
“Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.”

Source : "Medical correspondent Dr. Ian Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2010.
“I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.”
“I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.”
“I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.”

Source : John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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