top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."
Standard
Customized
More
"It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The beauty of one's life would never seize to fade away the moment hate settles in one's heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."
School
"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
Old
"We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again."
Time
"When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out."
Mother
"If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."
Experience
"Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?"
Job
"We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old."
Life
"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."
Heart
"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother."
Brother
"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."
People
bottom of page