"I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing."

-- Miles Davis

#Cutting Quotes #Lips Quotes #Stills Quotes

“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. Itâ€™s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers
“Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.”
“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“Well I think effects are tools”
“The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.”
“My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength”
“No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.”
“Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”

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