"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins"

-- Gerry Mulligan

#Listening Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Saxophone Quotes

“I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1891). “A White Heron”
“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.”
“In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.”
“The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.”
“The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.”

Source : Max Hastings (2008). “Retribution”, p.12, Vintage
“We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.”
“The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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