"The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances."

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Source : "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

Madeleine Peyroux

#Music Quotes #Chance Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Winning is contagious, you know its a thought. It's not something that just happens on Sundays. You know that's something, like you have to live like a winner. You have to think like a winner. You have to eat like a winner. Everything that you do with life, you gotta be a winner.”
“I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.”
“Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.”

Source : "President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors". Susan Hockfield's keynote address at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Salt Lake City, news.mit.edu. July 15, 2011.
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”

Source : "Until Tomorrow Comes". Book by Orville E. Kelly, 1979.
“Nature â€¦ is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.”
“I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.”
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
“The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.”

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