"The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that."

-- Wynton Marsalis

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“An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.”
“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”
“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.”
“Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.”
“I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.”
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.”
“The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.”
“In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.”

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