"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." - Arnold Bennett

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"Faith is taking the first step, even when you can't see the staircase."
~ MLK, jr.

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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.” - Herbie Hancock

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“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” - Miles Davis

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Be not afraid of growing slowly.
Be afraid of standing still.
~ Chinese Proverb

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"I have been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure
and a criminal level of optimism." ~ Quincy Jones

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"…Now, man, that alto man last night had IT – he held it once he found it; I’ve never seen a guy who could hold so long… Here’s a guy and everybody’s there, right? Up to him to put down what’s on everybody’s mind. He starts the first chorus, then lines up his ideas, people, yeah, yeah, but get it, and then he rises to his fate and has to blow equal to it. All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets it – everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He’s filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows it’s not the tune that counts but IT –" - Jack Kerouac

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"The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me - it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that has been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician's is through his music..." by John Coltrane

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"Those who say
it cannot be done
should not interrupt
the people doing it."
~ Chinese proverb