"My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music."

-- John Zorn

#Together Quotes #Solo Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2013). “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”, p.93, Baker Books
“When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.”
“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.”
“The fact that you're having disagreements with each other isn't a problem -that just shows that there are some areas of your relationship that need to be worked on. And that's normal. People are different, so of course you're going to run into times where your differences come out and rub each other the wrong way. But what's important is that you both commit to work on those differences until both of you are satisfied. When you do that, you're walking the right road together and over the long-run you'll do just fine.”
“Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.”
“the smallest part is worthy of the whole.”
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.”

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