"Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building."

-- Jimmy Rushing

#Music Quotes #Play Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.”
“I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.”
“It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.”

Source : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
“I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.”
“I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.”
“It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press
“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”
“Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.”

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