"Sing songs that none have sung"

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

#Song Quotes #Singing Quotes

“During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.”
“Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart is still beating the contrary (i.e., in opposite directions in the different vessels) movement of the blood is observed in the vessels-though with difficulty-so that the circulation of the blood is clearly exposed.”
“All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.”
“She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.”
“My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.”
“When one is undoneâ€”sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of oneâ€™s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone batteryâ€”much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.”
“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.”
“I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.

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