"Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound."

-- Marcus Miller

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“Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living”
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.”
“The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.”
“The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.”
“I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines”
“We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?”
“Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.”

Source : "Excelling at Positional Chess". Book by Jacob Aagaard, 2001.
“Get ready; if the Democrats take the House, your taxes are going up.”

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