"Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music."

-- Herbie Hancock

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“I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.”
“I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.”

Source : Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.”
“The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.”
“I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.”
“My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffered more than they have because I'm gay. We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you're starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.
“It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.”
“The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.”

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