"Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's no one on the globe who will be able to accompany you" and no one ever did. [Scott LaFaro] was playing atonally and certainly Ornette was not an atonal player. Jimmy Garrison was a tonal player. He wasn't even polytonal or atonal."

-- Paul Bley

#Music Quotes #Player Quotes #Able Quotes

“I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.”
“When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I went to prison, I paid my bill.”
“It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.”
“All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.”
“.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“If Carrie Ford wins the National I'll bare my backside to the wind, and let everyone kick it.”

Source : "Voyeurs, berets and Rip Van Winkle - the year in quotes", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2005.
“Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.”

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