"The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers."

-- John Dos Passos

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“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
“At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.”
“Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about whoâ€™s bigger, whoâ€™s smarter, whoâ€™s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.”
“[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.”
“Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?”
“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”
“I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.”

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