"I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“Most people are in favor of change, as long as they can continue to do things the same as they always have.”
“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
“I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.”
“Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.”
“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.”

Source : "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.
“Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty”
“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
“When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.”

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