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You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#now #time #life

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete. ↗

— John Legend

#athlete #early #football #i #kids

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#cast #decide #director #fifty #forty

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#best #control #could #doing #everything

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want. ↗

— Delia Smith

#career #found #happen #hear #i

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#best #every #find #function #give

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#boogie #called #dancing #derek #express

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#cameras #heavy #heavy metal #heavy weight #lightweight

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#nothing #world