"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."

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John Jay Chapman

#Character Quotes #Long Quotes #Three Quotes

“I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.”
“I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.”
“I've played guitar for years, and wanted to play guitar, but we got halfway through the last one and realized we hadn't used any.”
“Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.”
“Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back where we were eight years ago, they have been devaluing our assets, turning a unique institution into just another entertainment company.”
“Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.”
“I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.”
“I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.”

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