"I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out."

-- Carla Bley

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“I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.”
“The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.”
“Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.”

Source : Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.
“A person without regrets is called a corpse.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.237, Dell
“Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.”
“In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.”
“In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.”
“Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.”

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