"Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks."

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Source : "The World of Music". The Sunday Times, September 4, 1927.

Ernest Newman

#Tag Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Form Quotes

“if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.”
“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.”
“And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.
“In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.”
“If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.”
“The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.”
“To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.”

Source : "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.
“Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.”

Source : Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.50, The Overlook Press

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