"When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig."

-- Art Farmer

#Home Quotes #Practice Quotes #Four Quotes

“To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
“We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.”
“Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.”

Source : Interview with Germano Celant, www.artinamericamagazine.com. July 28, 2010.
“I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.”
“They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.”
“Please, I need you to save my ass.”
“My message is all about peace.”
“In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ***** dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.”

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