"If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth."

-- Joshua Redman

#Music Quotes #Depth Quotes

“If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.”

Source : Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt
“Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.”
“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”
“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”
“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”
“All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.”

Source : Elizabeth Towne (1996). “Experiences in Self Healing”, p.30, Health Research Books
“Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.”

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