"If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet."

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Source : "At the Jazz Corner of the World". Live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959.

Art Blakey

#Feet Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Feels Quotes

“My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.”
“If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.”
“The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”
“I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.”
“A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.”
“A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.”
“Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.”

Source : Hester Browne (2009). “The Finishing Touches”, p.405, Simon and Schuster
“Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.”

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