“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
Thelonious Monk (1917–1982) American jazz pianist and composer
Attributed by WKCR jazz host Phil Schaap, after a guest commented on how Monk played a lot of "wrong" notes. (March 1976) <br class="br">Source: Evan Spring, Phil Schaap Interview https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/phil-schaap-interview, WKCR, 5 October, 1992
“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Dan Fogelberg (1951–2007) singer-songwriter, musician
Believe in Me.
Song lyrics, Windows and Walls (1984)
“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)
“Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted.”
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II
On the Germans, to Woodrow Wyatt (16 November 1991), as quoted in The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume Two (2000) by Woodrow Wyatt, p. 608
“Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight”
Sister Souljah book Midnight and the Meaning of Love
Source: Midnight and the Meaning of Love
