"Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'"

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Source : "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.

Wayne Shorter

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“Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.”
“The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we wonâ€™t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult
“God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.”
“I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.”
“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being”
“I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.”

Source : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.137, Island Press
“Home is wherever I go.”
“In many ways my paintings are about energy â€” both in how they are created and the image itself.”

Source : "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. April 04, 2008.

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