"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa."

-- Art Blakey

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“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”
“I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.”
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
“Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.”
“It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.”
“I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasnâ€™t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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