"I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it."

-- Artie Shaw

#Thinking Quotes #Band Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.”
“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!”
“Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didnâ€™t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we werenâ€™t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!”
“Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.”

Source : "Vice's Shane Smith on What's Wrong With Canada, Facebook and Occupy Wall Street" by Jeff Bercovici, www.forbes.com. January 3, 2012.
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
“If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.”
“Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.”

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