"Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass."

-- Paul Zollo

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“I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.”
“Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.”
“If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.”
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage
“Besides, do you think you would have come if Iâ€™d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, â€˜Hello, Iâ€™m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?”
“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.”
“I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.”
“I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made -- not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.”

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