Don Byas quotes

Don Byas quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
-- Don Byas

#Famous Love Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.”
“Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away;”
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
“I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.”

Source : Eliza Acton (1826). “Poems”, p.110
“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.193, Penguin
“Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.”
“You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.”
“The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.”
“the possession of power brings on madness.”
“If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...”

You may also like:

Art Blakey
Jazz Drummer
Ben Webster
Benny Carter
Saxophonist
Benny Goodman
Musician
Charles Mingus
Bassist
Charlie Parker
Saxophonist
Coleman Hawkins
Saxophonist
Count Basie
Jazz Pianist
Dexter Gordon
Tenor Saxophonist
Dizzy Gillespie
Bandleader
Ella Fitzgerald
Vocalist
Gerry Mulligan
Saxophonist
Jo Jones
Drummer
John Coltrane
Saxophonist
Lester Young
Saxophonist
Mary Lou Williams
Jazz Pianist
Miles Davis
Musician
Roy Eldridge
Trumpeter
Stan Getz
Saxophonist
Zoot Sims
Musician