"I'm creative; I'm not re-creative."

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Source : "Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator". www.latimes.com. February 11, 2013.

Donald Byrd

#Creative Quotes

“In the end words are just wind.”
“My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.”
“I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. Thats good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.”
“I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice”
“I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
“Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!”
“To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.”
“Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.”

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