"My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex."

-- Anthony Braxton

#Jazz Quotes #Concerned Quotes #Contemporary Quotes

“Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.”
“I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.”
“Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.”
“Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.”
“Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.”
“Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

Source : "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.
“I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.”

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