Joseph Jarman Quotes

“But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.”

“Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.”

“Always think about loyal not for beautiful,about true not for rich,because if you have your loyal and true,you have your beautiful and rich”

“Change your world with your hardwork and loyalty not with your words and your dreams.”

“Then a soft air, a simple melody, rose to the ears of the suddenly hushed court; and for me, it was May Day again, and I was no longer cold, for the sun burned bright and the grass smelled of its sour-sweet bruisings and an old man fashioned a ballad for the Nut-Brown maid, who would ever be true to her lover. I leaned towards the brightness and, in an abandonment of joy and because there was none to see, tore off my henin and let my nut-brown hair fall to my knees. For I would be a child again, for five minutes, and remember the time when men stopped to gaze at me, with my chaplet of flowers crowning that at which they all marvelled, and longed to touch and stroke and possess.”

“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.”

“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”

“No moment is ever isolatedWith history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.”

“It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.”

“You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.”