Quotes: E. W. Wainwright

"A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world. It is the only way you can get to some place you've never been before. I try to make as many as I can. Making a mistake is the only way you can grow." 

–– Eccleston W. Wainwright, African-American jazz drummer 

Source: conversation with Nathaniel Klemp, 2001 

via: Sketchbook 15, 2011, p. 93