"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room."

-- Mary Lou Williams

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“I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only secular vehicle for transcendence we have. It's an immediate self-validating experience. It lifts you beyond your mortal clay.”
“His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.”
“Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.”
“No victor believes in chance.”
“You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2012
“To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.”
“But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.”
“When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.”

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