Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing. . . I just liked the way he played.
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.
Haven't you ever played Uno?. . . Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.