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- I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were…
- My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were…
- I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St.…
- I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's…
- Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that a great song, our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a…
- Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great…
- All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
- Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
- I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played…
- I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit…
- If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big…
- We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had…
- I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know…
- My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle