"Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself,"

-- Jerry Uelsmann

“Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.”
“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.”
“Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.”
“The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.”
“Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.”
“It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.”
“The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.”
“I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my motherâ€¦ It was my fatherâ€¦ It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.”

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