Quoted in: Jazz Journal International, (1983), p. 12.
Miles Davis asking Blue Note records producer Alfred Lion's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder's studio. Miles' gravelly-voice question was accidentally recorded, but included at the end of "One For Daddy-O" on the Cannonball Adderley recording "Somethin' Else": a famous recorded peek into the recording studio process.
1980s
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 21-22
“What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”
2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fjSrVCDvA
Maps of Meaning
“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”
“Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.”
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.
As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)
“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the.”
Source: Drawing Out The Dragons: A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
