"Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were."

-- Herbie Hancock

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Bills Quotes

“I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.”
“You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.”
“Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.”

Source : "Jack Klugman obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2012.
“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”
“I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.”
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
“I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.”
“I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.”

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