"As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader, the bartender-what they wear, how they deal with people, the simple continuity of their presence. As you do that you'll see how you affect them , and you'll play and act accordingly. You need to study the reality of the moment, and that is very rarely about studying modes and intervals."

-- Pat Martino

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“Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”
“I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.”
“You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.”
“Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.”
“To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.”
“Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart.”
“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”

Source : "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Dennis Wainstock, (p. 107), 1996.
“Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.”

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