"Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it."

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Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

David Sanborn

#Drama Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.”
“I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.”
“I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise.”
“It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.”

Source : "A Song for Summer".
“It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."”
“My body is far from a wonderland. My body is more like a pawnshop. There's a lot of interesting things put together, and if you look closely you'd probably be excited, but at first glance, not so much.”

Source : "Jennifer Love Hewitt faces Stupid Questions". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. October 11, 2007.
“Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”

Source : 'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7
“When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.”

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