"Bop is no love-child of jazz."

-- Charlie Parker

#Children Quotes #Bops Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.”

Source : Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.55, Shambhala Publications
“I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.”

Source : Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.38, Harmony
“If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.”
“Faith to me itâ€™s believe without seeing, itâ€™s how you live your life, how you are authentic.”
“Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.”
“It ainâ€™t dying Iâ€™m talking about, itâ€™s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.â€ ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
“And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...”

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