"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."

-- Sonny Rollins

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“When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.”
“If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.”
“Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.”
“There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.”
“I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.”
“I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.”
“Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page
“I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.”

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