"Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity."

-- Branford Marsalis

#Music Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.”
“I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium”
“I think music docs could turn off some people.”
“Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.”

Source : O.J. Brigance, Peter Schrager (2013). “Strength of a Champion: Finding Faith and Fortitude Through Adversity”, p.119, Penguin
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.”
“Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.”
“To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.”
“The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.”

Source : Introduction to De Praxi Medica

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