"Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it."

-- Derek Bailey

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“A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.”
“There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive.”
“The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but itâ€™s also an absolute miracle, that youâ€™re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water thatâ€™s run by a weak electrical signal, and youâ€™re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listenerâ€™s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. Thatâ€™s miraculous, and thatâ€™s where I live.”
“You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.”
“What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.”
“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”
“The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you. Itâ€™s not risky for you, as long as youâ€™re not confused either.â€ â€œIâ€™m not.â€ â€œOf course you arenâ€™t.â€ A small smile played on Balthazarâ€™s lips.”
“I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.”

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