"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."

-- Robert Wyatt

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Musician Quotes

“I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.”
“Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam
“Those who have nothing have only their discipline.”
“Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.”
“People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.”
“But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us â€” the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.”
“Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.”
“The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.”

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