George Russell quotes

George Russell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We become what we habitually contemplate”
-- George Russell

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“Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.”
-- George Russell

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“I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.”
-- George Russell

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“If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.”
-- George Russell

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“On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.”
-- George Russell

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“Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.”
-- George Russell

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“I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.”
-- George Russell

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