"Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing."

-- Howard Roberts

#Music Quotes #Running Quotes #Bats Quotes

“Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.”
“We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams wonâ€™t all come true; we wonâ€™t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.”
“Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.”
“We like the gift when we the giver prize.”
“What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.”
“I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.”
“When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.”
“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.”

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