"The idea is more important than the style you're playing in."

-- Ornette Coleman

#Music Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Style Quotes

“Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.”
“My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.”
“For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balmâ€” Not lost but gone before.”

Source : "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.
“I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.”
“The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is lifeâ€¦”
“If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.”
“My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.”

Source : "Political Sex Scandal; Interview With Pat Summerall; 'Minding Your Business': Wal-Mart; '90-Second Pop'". "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
“Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?”

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