"It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad."

-- Lionel Hampton

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“I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
“I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.”
“Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.”
“On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.”

Source : Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press
“Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.”
“I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.”
“Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.”

Source : FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Jun 12, 2014
“Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.”

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