"I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz."

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T-Bone Walker

#Thinking Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.”
“what was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
“You're not the center of the universe, you know.”
“Jazz groups have to make a living any way.”
“She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.”
“Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.”
“[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff, didn't believe in any religion, and he just thought all these people were being superstitious and wanted them to go away. And in that way he was very close to H.P. Lovecraft, who was almost a believing atheist.”
“Her little ring is a little thing, but its all I could afford Now she's mine, all mine till the day I die, and I never wanted nothin' more”

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