"Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out."

-- George Russell

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“People who eat white bread have no dreams.”

Source : Quoted in Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins The Power of Style (1994).
“The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.”
“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.154, Macmillan
“I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.”
“I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.”
“Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don't judge either as a complete win or loss.”

Source : Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.134, Pearson Education
“I saw David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” (1980) when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.”
“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

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