"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."

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Source : John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

John Philip Sousa

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“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
“If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.”
“Acting means living, it's all I do...”
“Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”

Source : Robert William Service, “Silence”
“Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative.”

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