"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."

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Source : "Jazz festival plans commemoration for trumpeter Al Hirt". www.cnn.com. April 28, 1999.

Pete Fountain

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“In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.”
“a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.”
“The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.”
“Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.”
“The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.”
“Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?”

Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.49, Wings Press
“Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.”
“Hip-hop didn't invent anythingâ€¦ hip-hop re-invented everything.”

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