#ten

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#excel #excellent #extent #i #knowledge

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

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. ↗

— Benny Green

#get #hobbies #i #listen #lot

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares. ↗

— Benny Green

#asked #attention #because #been #cares

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

We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people. ↗

— Benny Green

#challenge #doing #each #enjoy #for the people

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

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. ↗

— John Green

#ever #got #great #like #sentences

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice. ↗

— Seth Green

#award #builders #contention #designers #even