"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."

-- Cassandra Wilson

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“Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”
“Men play the game; women know the score.”
“I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.”
“Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I would like to remind you that both assimilation and integration apply to the working classes in the nineteenth century, at least in Britain and also Germany. Like most outsider groups compared with the establishment, the working classes were treated more or less with the same kind of stigmatization as immigrant groups are treated today.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.”
“I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."”

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