Quotes April 24, 2023

Rhythm is very important in music, and your life has to have rhythms too.
We don’t create, we discover — and the process of discovery gives you energy.
Ahmad Jamal,
jazz pianist, composer
1930-2023
 
 
 
 
Rules are invented for lazy people who don’t want to think for themselves.
Fashion is not frivolous; it is a part of being alive today.
Mary Quant,
fashion designer, “mother of the miniskirt”
1930-2023
 
 
 
 
One wishes to be a voice that makes a difference: some reparation to get the flow going in a different direction.
You only survived through your own wits, but if you survived, you knew you had made it.
Michael Roberts,
writer, editor, designer, artist, photographer
1947-2023
 
 
 
 
I think I’ve always been sensitive to disarray, to disorganization.
Doodling is a dot that leads to more dots to more ideas, that gel at some point. You never know where it’s going to go.
Edward Koren,
cartoonist, illustrator
1935-2023
 
 
 
 
From ‘Action’ to ‘Cut’ is the only reason I like my job.
I can use my voice in a much stronger way than I ever have.
Jenna Ortega,
actor
 
 
 
 
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882 – Lecturer-Poet-Essayist
 
 
 
 
Don’t always wait for someone else to inspire you. Inspire yourself.
Rodney Walker – Author-Entrepreneur-Inspirational Speaker
 
 
 
 
If things don’t go as expected, make the unexpected work in your favor.
Jose Andres
 
 
 
 
Even the best of ideas, carried to extremes, can deteriorate into absurdity.
Mimi Sheraton