"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."

-- David Amram

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“As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”
“In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.”
“How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.14, Penguin
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”
“I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place”
“None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.”
“In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger event, there's a lot more pressure - to do something, to investigate, to give some kind of compensation to the victims. With the smaller attacks, the pain is concentrated on those affected, because they've not just been forgotten by everyone else, which is normal, they've also been forgotten by the government, which lets the cases drag on for years in the courts.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”

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