Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did.
In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah. . . what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.
Thank you,” Skulduggery said to her. “I fear he was about to start insulting me. ” “I couldn’t let that happen,” she said. “Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing. ” “You see? You understand me.
Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.