Great quote from American Splendor:

Harvey Pekar:

The stuff he did with Thad on Bluenote in the late Fifties is more modern
than that bebop revival stuff he's into now...but you should be playing
something besides bop...man, bop was in the Forties...Post-bop was in the
fifties..the vocabulary for them has been devloped. You can't do anything
creative if you play bop now...it's like some contemporary guy composing
like
Bach or Mozart.....

Harvey Pekar, jazz

A smile that promises Spring

"I wonder if you need to unclose your mind. I do not understand things of the
mind very well, but perhaps yours is too firmly sealed. The old dreams need to
be read by you, and you need to seek the old dreams"..... Then she reaches out
accross the table and places her hand on mine. She smiles. A smile that promises
Spring.

A smile that promises Spring...

Murakami - 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World'
Haruki Murakami, books, quotes,