"I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'"

-- Jackie McLean

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“The past doesn't have anything to do with the future, only if you let it.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Style is the way we speak to the world without words.”
“It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.”
“The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2013). “The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science: Spirit and Matter, Subjective and Objective Mind, Power of Subconscious Mind (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc
“Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.”
“You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"”
“Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the [Frankenweenie] junket and everyone started asking about it again. Preacher could be filmed, at any point. It's sort of ready to go, but it's lacking a green light. At some point, that green light might come, but it may never come. So, I have to allow for the fact that I've done everything I can, and whatever happens with it, happens with it.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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