"Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it."

-- Horace Silver

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“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”

Source : "Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, 1976.
“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
“As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully simplified, but that's how it is.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.”
“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”

Source : Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
“At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.”
“I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.”

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