"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"

-- Branford Marsalis

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“Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.”
“We have a fair amount of racism.”
“Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”
“I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.”

Source : Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books
“It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we donâ€™t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line.”
“I started to write an apology, but I donâ€™t have anything to say Iâ€™m sorry for,”
“The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually youâ€™ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.”
“Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed”

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