#cal

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#calm #each #existence #farther #harmony

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#destroy #first #gods #promising #whom

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals. ↗

— John Conyers

#change #come #enthusiasts #every #few

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work. ↗

— Jim Talent

#down #effectively #gone #many #only

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#differently #everybody #family #just #next

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

Documents create a paper reality we call proof. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #documents #paper #proof #reality

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#depends #development #effort #growth #intellectually

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#jazz #mathematical #more #seems #sense