"There are notes between notes, you know."

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Source : The Los Angeles Times Interview, 1969.

Sarah Vaughan

#Music Quotes #Notes Quotes

“When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.”

Source : "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.
“If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.”
“My home is not a place, it is people.”
“When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.”
“There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.”
“Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.”
“It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.”

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