"The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?"

-- Eubie Blake

#Song Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Believe Quotes

“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.”

Source : "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.
“[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes”
“He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.”
“There are few secrets in football. So execute.”
“Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.”
“In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.”

Source : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.61, Canongate Books
“Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.”
“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.”

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