"Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on."

-- Roy Hargrove

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“I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.85, Bantam
“Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.”
“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”
“I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.”
“Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.”
“Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago”
“If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”
“Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.”

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