"Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician."

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Nat Hentoff

#Musician Quotes

“I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.”
“You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself â€” it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naÃ¯ve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.”
“I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge.”
“We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.”
“The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.”
“I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.”
“As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.”
“The President should be focused on making the lives of Americans better. It's what he promised. It's what the country needs.”

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