All Quotes
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Widely attributed but of uncertain provenance. The anecdote of Michelangelo "seeing the angel" is related in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help (January 1916), Volume 11 Issue 1; and in Walter Clemow Lanyon , London Notes and Lectures (1928), p. 13.”
“The anecdote is also described in William Stanyon, Bible Stories & Parables, with a Lesson On, What is Religion? (1884), p. 18 but is only attributed to "a sculptor" and not to Michelangelo specifically.”
“El arte puede vencer a la Naturaleza, si el artista sabe exprimirse por todas partes”
“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires. A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”
“They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”
“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).”
“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. Ch. 4.”
“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Ch. 4.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Ch. 4.”
“Put you in this pickle. Ch. 5.”
“I’ll play it and tell you what it is later. In Szwed, John (2012).  So What: The Life of Miles Davis . Random House. ISBN 9781448106462 . , and in many other books Sometimes rendered as: I'll play it ' first and tell you what it is later.”
“Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet”
“columns, c. 1957, in response to”
“Is that what you wanted, Alfred? Miles Davis asking Blue Note producer Alfred Lion 's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder 's studio. Miles' was included at the end of "One For Daddy”
“Quoted in: Jazz Journal International, (1983), p. 12.”
“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them. About the new modal style. Interviewed by The Jazz Review (1958); Quotes in Paul Maher, Michael K. Dorr (2009) Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, p. 18.”
“You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.”
“On Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview.”
“Mastersounds Heard Again in New Album; Miles Davis At the Blackhawk”
“I love Pops , I love the way he sings, the way he plays”
“Muhammad Ali was also great for civil rights”
“I think Terrell will catch hell at the sound of the bell. He's going around saying that he's a championship”
“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it. Comment after the match with Jimmy Ellis was stopped by the referee in the twelfth round”
“Muhammad Ali In His Own Words: Six of His Best Quotes to Live By ,”
“'The white man is the devil'”
“Round 1: I am the Greatest”
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. Interview in Playboy magazine”
“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion'. On training, as quoted by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre in "Ali: Born Again!," Newsweek”