"The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me."

-- Alberta Hunter

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“[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.”
“People are mostly very nice, and I always say hello. I'm laid back, so I don't mind. I think if people watch the show and want to say hi, you've got to be nice.”
“All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.”
“Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.”
“The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.”
“They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.”
“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.”
“A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.”

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