"Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing."

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Source : "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.

Chuck Israels

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“Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.”
“We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.”

Source : Mark Tobey, Kosme María de Barañano Letamendía, Matthias Bärmann, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1997). “Mark Tobey”
“Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not yet constellated. Yet we are not without signs of what the new might look like”

Source : Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.48, Penguin
“If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you dont quite know what problems are worth working on.”
“The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.”
“The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.”
“Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.”
“In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense â€“ a â€˜finalâ€™ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the â€˜Westâ€™sâ€™ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.”

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