"Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through."

-- Mary Lou Williams

#Being Yourself Quotes #Musical Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.”
“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367
“For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].”

Source : The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ch. 73 (1644)
“I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.”
“Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!”
“If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House
“I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.”
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”

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