"Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out."

“Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”

Source : "Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy". Book by Anders Stephanson, p. 160, 1989.

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.”

“To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.”

“U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.”

“God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

“There are way too many comedians now.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com