"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."

-- Chet Baker

#Play Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Inspired Quotes

“The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.”
“If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.”
“History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.”
“The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.”
“National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great.Â The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.”
“I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that”
“With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.”
“Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.”

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