"I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one."

-- Gary Burton

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“In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”
“The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.”
“We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.”
“Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.”

Source : Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press
“When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.”
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”
“It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.”
“Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.”

Source : Rosa Luxemburg (1946). “Letters from prison”

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