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“Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.”
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“My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.”
Source : "Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, 1998.
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“It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.”
Source : Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.45, Algonquin Books
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“...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”
Source : Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”
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“Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.”
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“I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.”
Source : "Cuba, Cognac, and Cachao with Andy Garcia". Interview with Allyson Shiffman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.
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“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
Source : Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet
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“The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.”