top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
Standard
Customized
More
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I see my life in terms of music."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Author Name
Personal Development
"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
Author Name
Personal Development
"History develops, art stands still."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
Art
"When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style."
Money
"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it."
Music
"I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something."
Talking
"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
Kids
"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind."
Mind
"That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age."
Age
"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
Want
"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
Drink
"I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back."
Time
bottom of page