"[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play."

-- Pharoah Sanders

#Music Quotes #Play Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee
“Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.”
“I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.”
“Make lots of noise Kiss lots of boys Or kiss lots of girls If that's something you're into When the straight and narrow Gets a little too straight Roll up a joint (or don't) Just follow your arrow Wherever it points.”

Source : "Follow Your Arrow". Song by Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves, October 21, 2013.
“I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.”
“The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.”
“God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.”

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