"I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other."

-- Max Roach

#Hero Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes

“Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.”
“Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.”
“The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.”
“But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber
“There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.”

Source : "Apocalypse Abuse and 'Climate Doomism'" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 13, 2017.
“It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.”
“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.”

Source : Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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