"Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age."

-- Oscar Peterson

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“We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.”
“There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery”

Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub
“I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.”
“I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.”
“I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.”
“The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no tattoos or piercings, which is interesting to me. Why does everyone who lives in one place dress alike, look alike, eat the same thing, and decorate the same way?”
“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.”
“The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.”

Source : Broadcast on Radio Bremen, August 2, 1940.

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