"I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting."

-- Gerry Mulligan

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“I think people in general don't take enough risks. Some people feel that before they can take on that next challenge they need to be 100 percent ready. It's just not true. Even people in their jobs aren't perfect at their jobs. So my biggest advice to people is to step out there. Take the risk and deal with it. What is the worst that could happen? It's about thriving on risk instead of shrinking from risk.”
“In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.”
“Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.”
“An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.”
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Source : Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.”

Source : Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.
“People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.”
“The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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