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Quote by Clarence Darrow

“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”

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Clarence Darrow was a prominent American lawyer known for his defense of controversial clients and his influential legal arguments. He was born on April 18, 1857, and passed away on March 13, 1938. more

“I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more important to know some good Miles Davis stories than to know how to play like Miles. I think you'll play better if you know some of the funny things he did than if you know the licks that he played.”

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Author:Sonny Sharrock

“Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick, and that's sad, man, you know. That's not makin' music; that's puttin' together puzzles, you know. Music should flow from you and it should be a force; it should be feeling, all feeling, man.”

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Author:Sonny Sharrock

“In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.”

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Author:Archie Shepp

“What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.”

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Author:Matthew Shipp

“Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.”

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Author:Matthew Shipp

“The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.”

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Author:Matthew Shipp

“Composing is improvisation slowed down.”

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Author:Wayne Shorter

“To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.”

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Author:Wayne Shorter

“I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!”

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Author:Wayne Shorter

“You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.”

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Author:Wayne Shorter

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