"As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music."

-- Edgar Winter

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“I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.”
“The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an â€œequalizer.”
“That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.”

Source : "This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp". Interview With Albert R. Hunt, www.bloomberg.com. June 18, 2017.
“Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.”
“Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most votersâ€™ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks.”
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
“I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.”
“I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.”

Source : "Memory Lane" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

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