"In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds."

-- Steve Lacy

#Music Quotes #Want Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”
“Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.”
“The clichÃ© is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichÃ©s, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.”
“Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.”
“In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.”
“I refuse to be stereotyped.”
“There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.”
“It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.”

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