"There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going."

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Source : Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.

Cannonball Adderley

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“Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.”
“The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.”
“It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”
“[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.”
“If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.”
“In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2014). “Tigerman: A novel”, p.164, Vintage
“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”
“Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.”

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