"I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician."

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Source : "Paul Bley obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2016.

Paul Bley

#Music Quotes #Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.”

Source : Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc
“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”
“I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.”
“A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.”
“Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!”
“You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.”
“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youâ€™re like an immigrant to your own world. You donâ€™t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
“Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.”

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