"I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing."

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Charles Mingus

#Boys Quotes #Swings Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.”
“If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.”
“All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.”
“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”
“I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”

Source : Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?”
“Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?”

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