Ayler Quotes

#1. 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

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

Albert Ayler

#3. God forbid, one day you two might understand what it's like to lose everything. To have to face it again, afterward - that might be the worst part. Sometimes the past should stay in the past.

City of Savages

Lee Kelly

#4. Move with a purpose dude.

Joe Teti

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

Albert Ayler

#6. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Jean Rhys

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

Albert Ayler

#8. The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

Andrew Jackson

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

Albert Ayler

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

Albert Ayler

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

Albert Ayler

#12. 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

#13. The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.

Dean Koontz