#ay

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #been #day #days #fiction

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. ↗

— Don Marquis

#fair #leave #mistakes #money #only

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#looking #one thing #players #really #sounded

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#give #got #i #i think #ourselves

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#bittersweet #everything #feel #had #happen

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#fans #handful #haters #pick #some

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#came #coltrane #day #few #groups