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"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
Jazz
"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."
Creation
"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
Jazz
"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."
Age
"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
Music
"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
Money
"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."
Death
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
People
"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."
Music
"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
Life
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