"Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you."

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Source : "Mike Stern: About The Music". Interview with All About Jazz, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 23, 2004.

Mike Stern

#Musical Quotes #Gigs Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.”
“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .”
“Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermatâ€™s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.”
“Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.”

Source : 'La mort du loup' (1838)
“If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.”
“There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.”
“I often think of that rare fulfilling joy, when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it.”
“Close friendships are one of life's miracles--that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.”

Source : "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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