"I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli."

-- Keith Jarrett

#Ideas Quotes #Musical Quotes #Sound Quotes

“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 195), 1979.
“If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.”
“A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.”
“Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.”
“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.
“As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.”
“It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.”

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