"They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging."

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Jay McShann

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“Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.”
“Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.”
“There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.”

Source : "After the elephant dung: Chris Ofili". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.
“Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?”
“It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.”
“One day Time will die And love will bury it”
“People fall in and out of love all the time, and sometimes people have numerous loves throughout their lives. But you have two epic loves and no matter who you were with, I don't think you'd ever get over or forget the other.”
“Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

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