"The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument."

-- Max Roach

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“Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.”
“Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.”
“How can you think and hit at the same time?”
“At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.”
“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.183, Broadway Books
“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”
“Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.”

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