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- Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and…
- As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process…
- I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men.…
- I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.
- The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a…
- I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
- Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never…
- Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong