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quotations[0] = "All things pass from obscurity to manifestation,
inspired harmoniously by the breath of the void.
Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching";
quotations[1] = "The essences of Taoism and Buddhism are the Vortex and the Void, respectively, that which cannot be captured, and that which cannot be described, the nameless and the featureless.
A.S. Kline
Like Water or Clouds";
quotations[2] = "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr";
quotations[3] = "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller";
quotations[4] = "There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings —and all the people sleeping in the slums.
R. Buckminster Fuller";
quotations[5] = "Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller";
quotations[6] = "Cause is effect concealed. Effect is cause revealed.
Vimilananda
The Aghora Trilogy";
quotations[7] = "Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
C.G. Jung";
quotations[8] = "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
C.G. Jung";
quotations[9] = "The Blues is a chair, not a design for a chair or a better chair or a bigger chair. It is the first chair. It is a chair for sitting on, not for looking at or being appreciated. You sit on that music.
John Lennon";
quotations[10] = "Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.
Charles Mingus";
quotations[11] = "Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.
John Coltrane";
quotations[12] = "All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane";
quotations[13] = "Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk";
quotations[14] = "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, jr., The Elements of Style";
quotations[15] = "A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard";
quotations[16] = "A masterpiece can never look like a masterpiece. It must be imperfect and full of mistakes, since it is the triumph of the mistakes that makes it a masterpiece.
Jean Cocteau";
quotations[17] = "Art is the lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso";
quotations[18] = "It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, just a choice, right now, between fear and love.
Bill Hicks";
quotations[19] = "We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
Bill Hicks";
quotations[20] = "To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour.
William Blake";
quotations[21] = "To achieve adjustment and sanity and the conditions that follow from them, we must study the structural characteristics of this world first and, then only, build languages of similar structure, instead of habitually ascribing to the world the primitive structure of our language.
Alfred Korzybski
Science and Sanity";
quotations[22] = "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
C.G. Jung";
quotations[23] = "Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that’s too bad.
John Coltrane";
quotations[24] = "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being … When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups … I want to speak to their souls.
John Coltrane";
quotations[25] = "Music washes away the dust of every day life.
Art Blakey";
quotations[26] = "First of all, I never strive for identity. That’s something that just has happened automatically as a result, I think, of just putting things together, tearing things apart and putting it together my own way, and somehow I guess the individual comes through eventually.
Bill Evans";
quotations[27] = "My creed for art in general is that it should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise... a part of yourself you never knew existed.
Bill Evans";
quotations[28] = "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
Charles Mingus";
quotations[29] = "Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.
Charles Mingus";
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