"Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation."

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Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

Derek Bailey

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“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”
“I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.”

Source : Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.93, Lulu.com
“I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.”
“I said Revolver is my favorite The Beatles album, but only because it came to my head and it's a brilliant one. But they're all pretty brilliant. There's variations, but they're all brilliant, and it just depends on if they're very brilliant, or just a bit brilliant. It changes.”
“It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.”

Source : "I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.
“Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.”
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

Source : Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.102, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.”

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