"Jazz is America's classical music."

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Source : "Dr. Billy Taylor, 90th birthday anniversary: Interview". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. October 14, 1999.

Billy Taylor

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“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
“The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.”
“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”
“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”
“I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.”
“Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.151, Island Press
“People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.”

Source : "Jane Wiedlin lists her favorite SF things" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2012.
“Laugh, I Nearly Died," Andrew answers. "You've probably never heard that one before.”

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