#his

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer. ↗

— Benny Green

#forward #help #his #intention #jazz

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. ↗

— Benny Green

#brown #could #dignity #four #had

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born. ↗

— Benny Green

#almost #born #called #day #dream

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath. ↗

— Duff Green

#cold #his #letter #like #produced

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. ↗

— John Green

#attention #attention spans #become #bells #bells and whistles

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ↗

— Julien Green

#descends #earth #explorer #greatest #heart

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography! ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#anything #biography #even #having #his

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#confronting #exactly #general #ghost #grappling

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

#always #bell #calls #dumb #guard

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

#dumb #harm #his #innocence #leper