"Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed."

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Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers

Alexis De Veaux

#Song Quotes #Pain Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.”

Source : Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, London, November 02, 1971.
“For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.”
“Habit is overcome by habit.”
“Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.”
“Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.”
“I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.”
“God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and Iâ€™ll take that any day,”

Source : FaceBook post by Nate Robinson from May 07, 2013

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