"Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life."

-- Lester Bowie

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“The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"”

Source : "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".
“If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.”
“Writing is not primarily escape, but use.”
“Any more questions?" I ask, poking him gently in the ribs. "Do you still love me any?" Eliot asks, putting his hand over mine. "A little." "A little?" he asks, pulling away from me. "A lot." "How much?" he asks. "More than chocolate chip cookies." "Mmm" he says, kissing my shoulder. "More than walking on the beach." Eliot kisses me on the neck. "More than . . ." I pause, turning to look at him. "More than?" he asks, kissing my lips. I turn toward him. "Anything.”
“If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive”
“I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.”
“I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.”
“I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal.”

Source : "Stella Vine in conversation with Ana Finel Honigman". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman at Saatchi Gallery site, July 25, 2007.

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