"What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder."

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Source : KABC-TV Interview, 1983.

Art Blakey

#Grind Quotes #Powder Quotes

“Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.”
“I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.”

Source : Source: www.rocksins.com
“When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and . . . even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.”
“While at first it seemed like a depressing realization, I soon realized that makeup is powerful - it's every woman's secret weapon.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.”
“One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
“Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.”

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