"I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician."

-- Sun Ra

#Music Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Type Quotes

“An eldery fallen angel travelling incognito.”
“What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time. I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me. I come across as arrogant somehow. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.”
“I've basically made a career out of my imagination. I feel very lucky.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.”
“Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.”
“Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408

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