Schlopy Ski Quotes & Sayings

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o'clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for another two or three hours, or that would make Louis Armstrong travel around the world for fifty plus years non stop, just get up out of his sick bed, crawl up on the bandstand and play, the thing that would make Duke Ellington, the thing that would make Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Mary Lou Williams, the thing that would make all of these people give their lives for this, and they did give their lives, is that it gives us a glimpse into what America is going to be when it becomes itself. And this music tells you that it will become itself. And when you get a taste of that, there's just nothing else you're going to taste that's as sweet. — Wynton Marsalis

So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself? — Sebastian Junger

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw. — Jacques Barzun

She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Weakness is strength. — George Orwell