Jazzhead Quotes

#1. That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Gertrude B. Elion

#2. Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free
society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

James Bryant Conant

#3. A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#4. Man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Salman Rushdie

#5. Who knows what we all are before anything happens?

Emma Donoghue

#6. God doesn't want you to wait, he wants you to live.

Martha Finley

#7. Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. 'Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can't stop lustin' after the goddamn ineffable.'
"She said that, hunh?"
"Yup."
"Shitfire, Sheriff, what'd you do?"
"Well, I shot her.

Robert Coover

#9. If you chase a butterfly, it will escape;
if you feed it, it will come.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

Carl Sagan

#11. If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

John Zorn

#12. We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

Steven Biko

#13. Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

Art Buchwald