"Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose."

-- Harold Town

#Strength Quotes #Years Quotes #Oil Quotes

“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.”
“Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, Iâ€™ve been doing it since before I was born. My body is a nightmare it hurts me every day. Iâ€™ve been taught to resent it by boys trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering. They knew there was something wrong with me, it was explained through hands that spoke only in exclamation points.”
“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”
“We do not see what is â€œreal,â€ we see what we are.”
“We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.”

Source : FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jun 17, 2016
“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”
“The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.”

Source : FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015
“Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me.”

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