"The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen."

-- Lennie Tristano

#Music Quotes #Play Quotes #Just Listen Quotes

“Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.”
“Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.”
“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”
“The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.”

Source : Joseph Henry (1886). “Scientific Writings”
“It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.”
“Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.”
“It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.”
“Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.”

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