"When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.”
“He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.”
“Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.”
“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”
“You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.”
“The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.”

Source : Steve Farrar (2009). “Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family”, p.47, Multnomah
“Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.”

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