"I strive for honesty in playing what I feel."

-- Kenny Burrell

#Music Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.”
“Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.”
“Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.”
“Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.”
“If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.”
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press
“Sheâ€™s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.”
“The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?”

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