"If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else."

-- James Wolfensohn

#Change Quotes #Moving Quotes #Status Quo Quotes

“Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.”

Source : Ned Sublette (2004). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.537, Chicago Review Press
“When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'”
“I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.”
“Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.”
“the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
“I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.”

Source : 1796 'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1
“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
“Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.”

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