"I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true."

-- Bill Frisell

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“When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.”
“Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.”
“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.”

Source : "The Man Who Made Radio Talk". Popular Science Monthly, May 1929.
“Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.”

Source : "Art & Other Serious Matters" by Harold Rosenberg, University of Chicago Press, (p. 155), 1985.
“Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.”
“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

Source : "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.
“It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.”
“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. Commenting about Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.”

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