"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."

-- Lee Konitz

#Double Standard Quotes #Saxophone Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.”

Source : Song: I Love Paris
“So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.”
“Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.”
“Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.”
“Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.”

Source : George Zebrowski (2014). “Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia”, p.70, Open Road Media
“Wrestling is realer than reality TV.”

Source : Source: screenanarchy.com
“I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.”
“If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.”

Source : Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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