Albert Ayler Quotes

#1. If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Music is the healing force of the universe.

Albert Ayler

#3. Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Mira Nair

#4. I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

Katori Hall

#5. Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things

Kirsten Beyer

#6. As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Mortimer J. Adler

#7. I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

Albert Ayler

#8. Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

Jerome Hines

#9. Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Albert Ayler

#10. We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican.

Alexandre Dumas

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#12. Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Maxim Gorky

#13. If people don't like my music now, they will.

Albert Ayler

#14. For heaven's sakes, every parent in America is checking social media and every employer is as well, but our government can't do it.

Carly Fiorina

#15. As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

Robert Breault

#16. God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.

Margaret Atwood

#17. The reality is I have a closet full of shoes that I don't wear because they are not comfortable, and I am not going to be hobbling between meetings. There's nothing that ruins an entrance like somebody who's uncomfortable in their shoes.

Ivanka Trump

#18. We must be as pure as our music.

Albert Ayler

#19. I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.

Gerry Lindgren

#20. Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

Albert Ayler

#21. Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir

#22. It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz - Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor - could never become owners of cleaning shops in malls across from railroad stations.

Haruki Murakami

#23. For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God

Albert Ayler