"[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice."

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Source : JamBase Interview, www.jambase.com. February 13, 2007.

Stewart Copeland

#Practice Quotes #Soul Quotes #Fool Quotes

“The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.”
“I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.”
“Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact”
“If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!”
“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”
“It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.”
“The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.”

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