"Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me."

-- Albert Ayler

#Music Quotes #Bebop Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.”
“Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.”
“Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!”
“In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.”
“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”
“I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.”
“As long as there are games to play its not over”
“As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.”

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