"Jazz is democracy in music."

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Wynton Marsalis

#Life Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”
“[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.”
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
“No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.”

Source : "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.
“Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.”
“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

Source : Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.
“O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain itâ€”the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”
“The truth is the light and the light is the truth.”

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