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“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.” Happy Birthday, pianist & composer EUBIE BLAKE. (February 7, 1887 – February 12, Blakes doings include “Charleston Rag", "Love Will Find a Way", and "I'm Just Wild About Harry”
“I want to express what's meaningful. I'm not into gimmicks. I want to make truthful music that's invigorating, maintains a cutting edge, takes on different shades.”
– Happy Birthday, pianist/composer Jason Moran
#jasonmoran #@painted_words @thejasonmoran #jazzcomposer
“Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is.”
Happy Birthday, YUKIO MISHIMA, author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai, an unarmed civilian militia #mishima
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”
Happy Birthday, DAVID BOWIE #davidbowie #spaceoddity #majortom #watercolor #pencil #thisisgroundcontroltomajortom #keithhenrybrown
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
Happy belated Birthday (December 8 ) Lucien Freud #lucianfreud #keithhenrybrown🎨 #iamtheleopard #sigmundfreud #penandink #painter #figurativepainting @lucienfreud #iamtheleopard @
“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.”
Happy Birthday Dave Brubeck! davebrubeck #penandink #jazzpianist #keithhenrybrown🎨
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.” Happy 68th Birthday, writer ALAN MOORE #alanmoore #vforvendetta #watchmen
“I see music as fluid architecture.”
Happy 79th Birthday, Roberta Joan JONI MITCHELL #watercolor #watercolorpainting #portrait #penandink #jonimitchell #vocalist #helpme #portraitillustration #bigyellowtaxi #woodstock #penandinkandwatercolor @jonimitchell #singer
“I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know. I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.” Happy Birthday, to the great two-fisted actor, CHARLES BRONSON @charles_bronson_will_kill_you_ @charlesgbronson