"I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing."

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Source : "A Fireside Chat With Andrew Hill". Interview with Fred Jung, jazzweekly.com.

Andrew Hill

#Music Quotes #Writing Quotes #Piano Quotes

“Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.28
“Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it!”
“A lot of people who didn't understand the need for civilians to bear arms on Sept. 10 were pretty clear on the issue by Sept. 12.”
“In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.”
“If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.”
“One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.”
“I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.”

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