"All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?"

-- Eubie Blake

#Song Quotes #Musician Quotes #Able Quotes

“I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.”
“Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.”

Source : Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”
“Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.”

Source : Drunvalo Melchizedek (2010). “Serpent of Light: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949 to 2013”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
“If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.”
“Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.”
“Write what youâ€™re scared about.”
“Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.”
“I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.”

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