"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish."

-- Charlie Haden

#Art Quotes #Passion Quotes #Creating Quotes

“And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.”
“One big disturbance, I think, between L.A. and New York is that New York is so condensed and together that it's very hard to be private there. There's a lot of constant interchange, people know what you're doing all the time. Here in L.A. it's the opposite, it's very spread out, unless you make a conscious effort to go someplace and look at something, you don't see it and we hear about it. So in that sense, it's a city where you can be very anonymous if you want to be, or even if you don't want to be.”
“Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'”
“Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.”
“The more you cook, the better you'll look.”
“It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.”
“Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.”
“More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.”

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