"I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word."

-- Pharoah Sanders

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“I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.”
“My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.”
“There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.”

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“I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.”

Source : "Kyle Dunnigan on the commercial futility of 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas'". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. December 10, 2013.
“I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.”
“On Saturday night, I would see men ***** after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.”
“When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.”
“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”

Source : "The Decision Makers". Book by Robert Heller, ch. 5. "The Innovators", 1989.

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