"The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning."

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Source : Interview with Beatrice Richardson, www.jazzreview.com. March 1, 2004.

Roy Haynes

#Leader Quotes #Musician Quotes #Energy Quotes

“So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”

Source : William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin
“For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.”
“If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me â€“ all of me â€“ I'm yours.”
“In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.”
“We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.”
“My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.”
“The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.”

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