"Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time."

-- Larry Coryell

#Able Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Popular Music Quotes

“The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.”
“The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1978). “Dance: rituals of experience”
“I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time ...”
“I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.”
“It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.”
“I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.”
“Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.”
“Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.”

Source : Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken

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