"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."

-- Robert Quine

#Listening Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Miles Quotes

“Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!”
“I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and cheese.”
“On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.”
“No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.”
“There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.”
“Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.”
“[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.”
“But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.”

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