"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."

-- Paul Desmond

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“Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.”
“Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook”

Source : "I've taken a pounding" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2004.
“When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what weâ€™ve taken as reality.”

Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.188, Macmillan
“You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.”
“I played with the best conductors of the world.”

Source : "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.
“To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.”
“Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.”
“This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.”

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