"I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery."

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Nathan Oliveira

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“With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.”
“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.318, New York Review of Books
“Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.”
“I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.”

Source : "Exclusive: John Mayall to Celebrate his 80th Birthday While Performing in Sarasota". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. September 28, 2013.
“This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas.”
“Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supplyâ€”fruits and vegetables.”
“People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.”
“The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.”

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