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Oliver Stone: When you look...

Oliver Stone: When you look...

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

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Derek Jarman: The preserve of...

Derek Jarman: The preserve of...

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or. . . delusion.

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Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

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Mahalia Jackson: It is easy...

Mahalia Jackson: It is easy...

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the...

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Robert Orben: If you can...

Robert Orben: If you can...

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Robert Orben: If those scientists...

Robert Orben: If those scientists...

If those scientists are so smart, why do they all count backward?

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Miles Davis: Bebop was about...

Miles Davis: Bebop was about...

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep...

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Miles Davis: I was minding...

Miles Davis: I was minding...

I was minding my own business when something says to me, you ought to blow trumpet. I have just been trying ever...

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Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

I stole everything that I heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Source: In...

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Betty Carter: After me there...

Betty Carter: After me there...

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my...

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Josephine Baker: . . ....

Josephine Baker: . . ....

. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed...

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Nina Simone: Music is a...

Nina Simone: Music is a...

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

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Charlie Parker: Don't play the...

Charlie Parker: Don't play the...

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Charlie Parker: Any musician who...

Charlie Parker: Any musician who...

Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain straight liar ....

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Willie Nelson: I never gave...

Willie Nelson: I never gave...

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

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Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on...

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Alice Childress: The twisted circumstances...

Alice Childress: The twisted circumstances...

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering,...

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Alice Childress: It becomes almost...

Alice Childress: It becomes almost...

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own...

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Clifton Fadiman: My son is...

Clifton Fadiman: My son is...

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the...

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Herman J Mankiewicz: It is the...

Herman J Mankiewicz: It is the...

It is the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

Source: Referring...

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