“To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.”
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Calm Quotes — page 263 of 276
“Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.”
“We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.”
“I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.”
“The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.”
“I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.”
“I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.”
“We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.”
“The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'”
“People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.”
“Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!”
“Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.”
“You treat God like you treat any dangerous looney — keep him calm and stay on his good side.”
“Sleep is no mean art.”
“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.”
“The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.”
“Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.”
“Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.”
“Remain true to the earth.”
“As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.”