#or

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#contain #does #living #living thing #me

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#hear #heard #learn #learned #peanuts

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#discouraged #getting #how #i #learned

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#original thing #quo #say #sort #status

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#anyone #being #else #fans #happen

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#acting #entire #entire life #few #george

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#coast #depression #east #east coast #everyone

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#find #from time to time #good #grateful #how

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#around #back #comes #corner #death

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#anywhere #because #i #kid #know