"I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy."

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Source : "A Fireside Chat With Pharoah Sanders". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 21, 2003.

Pharoah Sanders

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Band Quotes

“Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.”
“I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.”
“Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.”
“One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.”
“Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.”
“A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.”
“I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.”

Source : "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.
“Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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