"His frown was less dark and more confused."What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes." "And you let some strange college boy grind all over you for your first time? That's stupid, Ali." NOT GOING TO BE EMBARRASSED, NOT GOING TO BE EMBARRASSED."First, he wasn't grinding on me, and second, you're no better than him." A solid minute of silence, then "You are terrible for my ego, you know that?" I could say the same to him."

-- Gena Showalter

#Stupid Quotes #Confused Quotes #Dark Quotes

“The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.”
“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.
“I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'”
“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”
“The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.”
“Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself”
“I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!”

Source : "Muse flash". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2003.
“Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?”

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