"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

-- Branford Marsalis

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“A heart that hurts is a heart that works.”

Source : "Song: "Bright Lights" ("Battle for the Sun")". 2009.
“Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection. - Alexander”
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

Source : "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.
“I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Daniel Alarcón" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2013.
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.”
“You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.”
“Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.”
“Preki quite literally only has the one foot”

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