"I think music all the time."

-- Roy Ayers

#Thinking Quotes

“Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.”
“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
“The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.”
“A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.”
“We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.”
“My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."”
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.321, New Directions Publishing

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