"Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie"

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Barney Kessel

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“There's no winning arguments with your parents”
“We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.”
“Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.”
“For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”
“We are all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we are in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the difficult and bad times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are easier to face when they do. And always remember that anything that causes the shadow is smaller than the source of light.”
“I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.”
“'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.”

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