And this matches up with my other favorite quote, this one from Philip K. Dick: "Love without guts is useless.
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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”
Picasso
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Sounds like something a politician would quote…
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Miles Davis similarly said something like “learn everything about music, then forget it and play”
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or live them at our expense
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“Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.”
P.J.O’Rourke
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A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don’t look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.
~Rod Serling
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One of his best, and so poignant.
”Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins."
Dizzy Gillespie
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That’s a sad way to see one’s instrument.
Trumpet is entirely unforgiving. One must dedicate concerted time to it every day.
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basking in the glorious wake of modest achievement…Dennis Miller
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“Don’t make that noise. Why would you do that?”
Alison Balsom
(Alison is a superb British trumpeter. She said this during a master class. It was hilariousl.)
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“I don’t need time, I need a deadline.” Duke Ellington
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“The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day.”
Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961)
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“A composer is a guy who goes
around forcing his will on
unsuspecting air molecules,
often with the assistance
of unsuspecting musicians.”
FVZ
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“In the war between platitudes and physics, physics is undefeated.”
@doomberg
Two recent ones that sort of hang together.
“[The brain] is unable to distinct [sic] whether information is right or wrong; is led to believe statements or messages it has already heard as true, even though these may be false; accepts statements as true, if backed by evidence, with no regards to [sic] the authenticity of that evidence.”
“ At the political and strategic level, it would be wrong to underestimate the impact of emotions…. Emotions —hope, fear, humiliation — shape the world and international relations with the echo-chamber effect of social media.”
Cognitive Warfare, NATO
…and …
“When we are afraid, we do not see clearly. Critical thinking is always difficult, but it’s almost impossible when we are scared. There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
Hans Rosling from “Factfulness”
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