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“In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.”
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“One must always do what one really cannot.”
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“Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?”
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“I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.”
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“A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.”
Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.406
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“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.”
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“If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.”
Source : Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.412, Penguin
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“Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.”
