"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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Source : Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

Charlie Parker

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“Daytime television, you can tell whoâ€™s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either itâ€™s clinics for drying out drunks. Or itâ€™s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or itâ€™s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If youâ€™re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. Youâ€™re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.”
“The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.”

Source : "X Factor finals 2011: Simon Cowell warns judges they face axe over plummeting viewing figures". www.mirror.co.uk. October 22, 2011.
“Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.”
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”
“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.”
“I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
“Eazy-E was cooler than Barack Obama and Michelle put together.”

Source : Source: www.dubcnn.com

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