Baffour Asabre Quotes & Sayings

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people. — Henry Threadgill

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. — Andre Maurois

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment. — D.H. Lawrence

X and Y
the Co-ordinates of
Zen Navigation

X = the limited time you have on the road, in a life
Y = the eternity you have in every hour, every day
Z = Each step you take is a once-in-a-lifetime infinite thing — Vivian Swift

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. — Thomas Sowell

If you took 1 Corinthians, chapter
thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity',
the chapter had ten times as much meaning as before. — George Orwell

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time. — Bonnie Raitt

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm. — Ed Westwick

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain