"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."

Lukas Foss, German Composer

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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."

Patrick Macnee, British Actor

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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."

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"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

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"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."

Ernst Mayr, German Scientist

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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

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"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

People,

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

Living,

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

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"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

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"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."

Time,

"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"I'm playin' the music I like."

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"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

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"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."

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