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"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
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"Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision."

"When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it."

"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."

"Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice."
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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."

"People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world."

"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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