Category: Music

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” ― Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor *** Essentially Ellington 2021:

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo

  “Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect

  “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul

“If it sounds good, it IS good.” ― Duke Ellington *** Duke Ellington – “Take the A Train”

“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly