Buddy Bolden quotes
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“I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.”
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Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
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“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”
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Source : Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.83, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.”
Source : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.73
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