"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'."

-- Carla Bley

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“Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.261, Transaction Publishers
“An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.”

Source : "I am not a competitive person: Shreya Ghoshal". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. February 8, 2013.
“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”

Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Princess Casamassima'.
“Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”
“That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.”
“Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.”
“I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.”
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”

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