Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it
We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
"Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?" "This is the joint!" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!"
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more. . . To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.
Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.