"Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it."

-- Shirley Horn

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“Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.”
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”
“To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.”
“I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was very brave and a kid from the Depression. And my mother, a child from the Depression too, who always remained so lovely her whole life.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.”
“I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.”

Source : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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