"I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens."

-- Miles Davis

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“In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.”

Source : Interview for Austrian television in Paris (November 6, 1978), as quoted in "Democracy? I meant theocracy - The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini and Farhad Mafie in "The Iranian", August 5, 2003.
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
“I've learned that each day is definitely a gift.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.”
“Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.”
“The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.”
“We are asleep with compasses in our hands.”
“A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.”

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