"I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer."

--

Charles Mingus

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“When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.”

Source : David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.27, Vintage
“It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.”
“Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.”
“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.”
“Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey.”
“Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.”
“I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.”

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