"I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do."

-- Omer Simeon

#Dizzy Quotes #Jelly Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”
“Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.”
“There are no shortcuts to success.”

Source : Annika Sorenstam, Golf magazine (New York, N.Y. : 1991) (tidskrift) (2004). “Golf Annika's Way”, Gotham
“It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.”
“They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldnâ€™t take advantage of them.”

Source : "Bunny Yeager, photographer behind rise of Bettie Page, dies aged 85". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2014.
“I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.”
“What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.”
“I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where I am today, so I know I don't know what's going to happen in the next five years or the next 20 years. I have my predictionsâ€”I'm sure technology will continue to have an impact on fashion, particularly the way people shop. I think quality will be increasingly importantâ€”we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.”

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