"Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere."

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Source : 1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

Mike Zwerin

#Music Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Outlaw Quotes

“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.”
“See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.”
“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.”
“When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.”
“Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and itâ€™s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.”
“In America you need a bodyguard to go out.”
“The Bhagavad Gitaâ€”that ancient Indian Yogic textâ€”says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody elseâ€™s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
“All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.”

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