"Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?"

-- Anthony Braxton

#Vibrations Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.”
“If your kids remember anything, it's the fact that you were there. You're gonna fail every day, you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna do things wrong, but as long as you're there, they remember that. And I see that. Our kids are so young, but they know that we're at every basketball game. We take them with us to places, we engage them. It's not helicopter parenting we just keep them around us. It's that bond. If you lose that it's hard to get it back. I think by showing up, kids, they're always connected to you.”

Source : "Raine Maida On Raising Three Boys". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.
“Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.”
“Actually, youâ€™re way off.â€ â€œOh?â€ the guard asked. â€œYup. Sheâ€™s not a werewolf, sheâ€™s a chupacabra. Have you noticed a lot of missing goats lately?”
“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”
“I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.”

Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
“How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?”
“If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.”

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