"Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass."

-- John Coltrane

#Music Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“Thatâ€™s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.”
“No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks ...”
“Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.”
“If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.”
“Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.”
“You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.”
“Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...”
“Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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