"You have to know composition to be a good improviser."

-- Roscoe Mitchell

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“Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.”
“Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right moment where everything was happening. There was a great interest for rock en espaÃ±ol and it was everywhere. The audience, labels and the media were all interested; everything was there. We wanted to present music that was very personal to us, and it continues being that way.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.”

Source : "The Man Who Protected Lincoln" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2013.
“I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.”

Source : "Marcia Cross Tries to Lose the Baby Weight". abcnews.go.com. June 4, 2007.
“You have to know how to score.”
“The Jews run all the banks. Well, we do. The Jews run the media. Well, we do. You know, I mean they're right about all that stuff.”
“I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”
“The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

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