Naazima Quotes & Sayings

Music and dance. What I have written must surely suggest a people cursed by Heaven,... No people on earth, I am persuaded, loves music so well, nor dance, nor oratory, though the music falls strangely on my ears... More than once I have been at Mr. Treacy's when at close of dinner, some traveling harper would be called in, blind as often as not, his fingernails kept long and the mysteries of his art hidden in their horny ridges. The music would come to us with the sadness of a lost world, each note a messenger sent wandering among the Waterford goblets. Riding home late at night, past tavern or alehouse, I would hear harps and violins, thudding feet rising to a frenzy. I have seen them dancing at evening on fairdays, in meadows decreed by custom for such purposes, their bodies swift-moving, and their faces impassive but bright-eyed, intent. I have watched them in silence, reins held loosely in my hand, and have marveled at the stillness of my own body, my shoulders rigid and heavy. — Thomas Flanagan

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive. — Robert H. Schuller

I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find. — Rick Newcombe

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best. — Zig Ziglar

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. — Gene Kelly

That it does." I smile warmly. He rubs his nose against mine, Eskimo-style. "I just thought it would — Samantha Towle

Westcott lived in the most perilous zone between waking and night - the shadowlands of watching and waiting, questioning and listening. He lived in the glade of remembrance." - from Who Has Known Heights — Wheston Chancellor Grove

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process. — Cecil Taylor