"Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills."

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Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

John Kao

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“The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.”
“There's never any guarantee at war.”
“Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.”
“It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.”
“Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.”
“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”
“In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.”
“The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.”

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