"In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds."

-- Frederic Rzewski

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“Fortunately, I've never had a job”
“A lot of people believe what other people say.”
“If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.”
“Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.”

Source : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation
“In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.”
“A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.”
“Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.”
“Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1977). “We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade”, Harcourt

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