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i love malcolm x
(Source: blvblak)
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh (via theholykaron)(via jbe200)
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Jackie McLean - Street Singer (1960)
Before McLean journeyed into more avant-garde explorations, he was the quintessential hard bopper. This Tina Brooks composition, which also appears on Brooks’ posthumously released LP Back To The Tracks, is the definition of small-ensemble hard bop that Blue Note helped perfect in the late 50s and early 60s. The tense yet swinging melody that Brooks achieves on this cut is almost impossible to forget.
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
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Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
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Charles Ives: Orchestral Suite No. 1 “Three Places in New England”; 1st movement (The “St. Gaudens” in Boston Common)
David Zinman conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
(via blogthoven)
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(Source: yimmyayo)
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(Source: desert-dreamer, via akilivumbi)
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Art Blakey (Oct. 11, 1919 - 1990) was one of the most important drummers and band leaders of modern jazz…
Blakey’s drumming was potent and bold - his leadership of The Jazz Messengers, an ever-changing line-up of young talented musicians, no less so. Blakey put hard bop drumming on the map, both within jazz circles and for a wider audience, through the showcasing of work by, for instance, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis…
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