"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."

-- Sonny Rollins

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“The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.”
“Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.”

Source : "Mads Mikkelsen on A Royal Affair: Q&A". The Star Interview, www.thestar.com. January 31, 2013.
“You don't need any brains to listen to music.”
“If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.”
“Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.”
“I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.”
“No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.”
“Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that â€“ having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] â€“ I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.”

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