Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley
Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.
Earl Riney
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
Miles Davis
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Paul Chambers
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Evans
"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again."
Eric Dolphy
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.
Ornette Coleman
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Quran 2:263 Quran 2:263
Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
Kabbalah
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.