"For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment."

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Source : Source: revive-music.com

Jose James

#Fashion Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Magic Quotes

“Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.”
“Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.”

Source : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.301, St. Martin's Griffin
“A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!”
“On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.”
“The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, itâ€™s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you donâ€™t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.”
“Women hold up the other half of the sky ...”
“When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.”
“A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

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