"I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now."

-- Richard Grossman

#Real Quotes #Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.”
“In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.”
“Take your time. Love is gonna come. Don't force it. Don't try to make it happen. Relax, take your time, and you'll know when it's there. My mom gave me that advice.”
“No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courageâ€”courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.”
“Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.”
“I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.”
“At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.”

Source : Jodi Thomas (2008). “Twisted Creek”, p.249, Penguin
“I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.”

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