"Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax."

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Source : Ned Sublette (2004). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.537, Chicago Review Press

Ned Sublette

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“There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.”
“If you don't do your dance, who will?”
“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”
“Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan
“Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Dry creek glimpsed by lightning”
“The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.”

Source : "Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger 'On the Record'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. October 1-2, 2009.
“As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com

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