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Quote by Dewey Redman

“The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.”

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Dewey Redman was an influential American saxophonist born on May 17, 1931, and passed away on September 2, 2006. He is known for his unique playing style and contributions to free jazz. more

“National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense: The American military is the number-one guarantor of peace in the world. But maybe something like a Nobel freedom prize would be a more appropriate award for Reagan than a peace prize.”

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Author:Jay Nordlinger

“Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.”

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Author:Rudy Wiebe

“Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.”

Thinking Looks

Book:Wide Awake Boxset

Source: Wide Awake Boxset

“We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground”

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Book:2011: A Book of Grace-Filled Days

Source: 2011: A Book of Grace-Filled Days

“It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!”

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Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.”

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Author:Keith Jarrett

“I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.”

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Author:Abdullah Ibrahim

“Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man”

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Author:Abdullah Ibrahim

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