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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ↗

— Alan Watts

#define #like #own #teeth #trying

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ↗

— Alan Watts

#future #living #made #now #plans

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ↗

— Alan Watts

#act #being #beings #changing #delivered

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. ↗

— Alan Watts

#aggressive #altering #america #capacity #gone

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#change #everything #hardly #hotel #hotel room

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#hell #i #just #know #liked

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#because #bill #changes #chord #follow

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#every #fantastic #good #him #his

We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#before #eight #everything #go #hours

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#ignorance #own #your #yourself