Baltic Jazz - Annual jazz event held in Dalsbruk. The festival offers traditional jazz performed by artists from countries around the Baltic. In English, Swedish, and Finnish.
Jazzrytmit - Finnish jazz magazine. Provides brief information in English, including advertising rates and contacts.
Turku Jazz - Promoting jazz music in the area. Pictures of their annual happening.
Alandia Jazz Festival - Jazz event in the town of Mariehamn. Schedule, ticket information, and band links.
Jazzoo Jazz Club - Non-profit organization in Western Finland that is open for all lovers of live music. Includes events and activities.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Jazz Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jazz
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Jazz Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Jazz
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Jazz Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Jazz
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Jazz If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Jazz
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Jazz There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Jazz
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Jazz Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Jazz
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Jazz "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Jazz
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Jazz I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Jazz
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Jazz "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Jazz
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Jazz Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Jazz
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Jazz They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Jazz
