#th

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#diamond #hands #her #loved #music

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#alone #being #boil #coffee #does

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur? ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#blessed #days #feet #first #first time

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#gift #honours #important #lacking #lavished

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#i #other #some #stuff #things

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#ears #indicated #me #music #talent

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#be careful #careful #dazzle #father #forget

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already. ↗