"I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least."

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Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

Mose Allison

“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
“I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.”

Source : "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.
“I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.”
“We have to make sure that a fair share of the tax revenues remain in our country.”
“It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.”

Source : "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, fortune.com. October 03, 2012.
“The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.”
“No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.”

Source : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright
“In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum. Chromium. Manganese. Iron. Nickel. Cobalt. and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shews that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.”

Source : "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

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