"Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers."

-- Wanda Landowska

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“I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.”
“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
“He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.”
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.”
“I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the concert stage. And the idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs fromÂ The Nightmare Before ChristmasÂ live for the very first time is immensely exciting.”
“Charity cures heartaches.”
“I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.”

Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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