Quote of the Week

no boundary line to art

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.” Charlie Parker

Talking Music

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture Martin Mull (1979)

From a Wall at the SFUSD

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

On Patriotism

I said that no party held the privilege of dictating to me how I should vote. That if party loyalty was a form of patriotism, I was no patriot, and that I didn’t think I was much of a patriot anyway, for oftener than otherwise what the general body of Americans regarded as patriotic course …