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Dizzy Gillespie

"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."

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Asa Don Brown

"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

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Asa Don Brown

"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

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Asa Don Brown

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

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Asa Don Brown

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

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Asa Don Brown

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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Asa Don Brown

"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

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Asa Don Brown

"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."

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Asa Don Brown

"I don't get called very often to play innocents."

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Asa Don Brown

"We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal."

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Asa Don Brown

"We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important."

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Dizzy Gillespie
"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."

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Dizzy Gillespie
"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange."

Ideas

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Dizzy Gillespie
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."

Music

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Dizzy Gillespie
"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Life

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Dizzy Gillespie
"They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it."

Dance

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Dizzy Gillespie
"Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that."

Men

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Dizzy Gillespie
"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is."

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