"I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around."

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Source : "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

Charles Mingus

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“If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.”

Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.
“Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.”
“A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.”
“So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.”
“Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.”

Source : Carolyn Crane (2010). “Mind Games”, p.137, Spectra
“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.”
“I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.”

Source : "Dems battle over Confederate flag". Des Moines Register Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.
“Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.”

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