"The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within."

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Source : "Alice Coltrane, Wife of John, Left Her Own Mark". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 16, 2007.

Alice Coltrane

#Heart Quotes #Piano Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.”
“Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.”
“Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!”
“I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.”

Source : Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106
“An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature.”
“Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.”

Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
“Sad stories make good books”
“I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it”

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