"I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids."

-- Archie Shepp

#Father Quotes #Kids Quotes #Race Quotes

“I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.”
“We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.”

Source : Source: www.popmatters.com
“The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.”
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”

Source : "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.
“It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.”
“Nowadays, with digital printing, itâ€™s so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.”

Source : "It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.
“It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.85, Hachette UK
“Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.”

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