C. N. Lester Quotes

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

The trumpet is forceful.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.

I think sometimes we lose sight of how powerful we are when we put someone on the news - for good or bad. It can really change people's lives.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

You look at the Middle East, it's a total mess.

Candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald trump], we look forward to hearing you articulate your policies and your positions, as well as your visions and your values.

I am honored to have this role [of the moderator], but this evening belongs to the candidates and, just as important, to the American people.

Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.

The script just can't commit the sin of being boring.

Paris may be expensive but I love it. It's the one place to spend money and enjoy.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.

When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life.

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.