"If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation."

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Henry Threadgill

#Roots Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.”

Source : "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.
“If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.”
“War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.”
“I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.”
“We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.”

Source : Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.34, Routledge
“It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!”
“If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.”
“... thereâ€™s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?â€ - Paul Hudson”

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