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John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn’t stopped. I don’t think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw
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“George whispered in my ear, “Ask them where’s Shakespeare now, motherfuckers!”
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
“Ironically, this fixation on the positive—on what’s better, what’s superior—only serves to remind us over and over again of what we are not,”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“It had been years since I’d been in a gang, but it was the one lesson Gilbert had failed to teach me. We were not invincible. So many of my old homies were dead, casualties of the life.”
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
“Appearances and salesmanship became more advantageous forms of expression. Knowing a lot of people superficially was more beneficial than knowing a few people closely. This is why it became the norm in Western cultures to smile and say polite things even when you don’t feel like it, to tell little white lies and agree with someone whom you don’t actually agree with.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn’t stopped. I don’t think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.”
― Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby
― Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby
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