"After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris."

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Source : Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing

Gilad Atzmon

#New York Quotes #Military Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“Don't consider sarcasm the 'be-all' and 'end-all' of verbal intercourse. Far too many people place way too much importance on the sarcasm instead of the talking, in and of itself, as a precious shared experience between people.”
“God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books
“The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.”
“Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”

Source : Mary Norton (1989). “The Borrowers”, Sandpiper
“I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.”

Source : Song: Two Fingers, Album: Jake Bugg, 2012
“The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.”
“What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?”
“I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.”

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