Jazzman Quotes

#1. What I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

Cornel West

#2. I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

Charles Mingus

#3. And the sculptors will shape the soil for the writers to stretch the seeds
for the patient painters who sketch the petals they will shade in alabaster and gold. Their sweat is the rain. Maybe the jazzman will send us a rose.

Kristen Henderson

#4. There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

Stan Getz

#5. The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and

Rebecca Solnit

#6. Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.

Imran Khan

#7. When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

Tavis Smiley

#8. I told you, everyone understands a quest.

Sarah Dessen

#9. How's Cujo?"
"He's good. Thank you for saving him." ...
"You asked," he said with a shrug.

Erica O'Rourke

#10. The lover of letters loves power too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

Richard Rohr