"Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how you learn how to do it. You don't learn how to write about jazz just from listening to jazz. You learn how to write by reading the great writers and how they worked, the great music critics."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Gary Giddins

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.”
“We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”
“Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.”
“Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.”
“We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.”
“That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures of black boys." They're not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.”
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.”
“I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.”

Source : "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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