"I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play"

-- Coleman Hawkins

#Play Quotes #Style Quotes #Honestly Quotes

“The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.”
“It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.131, Granta Books
“I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.”
“Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.”

Source : DONALD A. WOLLHEIM (1980). “THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF”
“You also get a deduction in America for taking a night school course, growing sugarcane, moving to a new city for a job, replanting a forest, insulating the attic, destroying old farm equipment, employing Native Americans, commuting to work by bicycle - but only if the bike is regularly used for a substantial portion of travel - or buying a plug-in hybrid sports car, or buying a recreational vehicle. I mean there are hundreds of them, and most of them are nuts.”
“We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'”
“A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.”

Source : Titus Burckhardt (1967). “Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul”
“I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.”

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