"I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy."

-- Lester Bowie

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“Iâ€™m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.”
“No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.”
“No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.”
“The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?”
“The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.”

Source : Gerald G. Jampolsky, Diane V. Cirincione (1992). “Wake-Up Calls”, Hay House Incorporated
“When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.”
“Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.”
“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”

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