Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quotes

#1. All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#2. Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Anatoly Karpov

#3. Their love was like a prison, and I the willing inmate.

Steve Maraboli

#4. What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#5. I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#6. Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#7. We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#8. I've only got a handful of memories, and I don't want them wearing away, textures rubbing smooth, colors fading from overexposure. When I take them out, once in a blue moon, I need them bright enough to catch my breath and sharp enough to cut.

Tana French

#9. Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.

Philip Zaleski

#10. You only saw the darkness, Tammy. There was another side to her. I think there always is, don't you? There's always some light in the darkness, somewhere.

Clive Barker

#11. I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#12. When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#13. The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.

Michal Kalecki