Jan Garbarek Quotes

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • School

• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Long
  • Way
  • Annoying

• It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Man
  • Me
  • Woman

• Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Food
  • Spoiled
  • Southerner

• The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Kind
  • Darkness

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • World
  • True
  • Confidence

• I'm certain about my decision to divorce you. Stop hoping.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Stop
  • Decision
  • Divorce

• For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Art
  • Past

• So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent.And it broke in three places when it finally went.It wanted only to say what it meant.So it suffered every punishment.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Long
  • Heart

• It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Bird

• The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Done

• For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Art
  • Experience
  • History

• I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • Famous

• In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

  

  Jan Garbarek