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"Always try to live in a wonderful world where the sun is always shining, flowers are always blooming, birds are always singing, and you are always busy with a joyful life."
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"A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved."
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"Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify."
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"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."
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"Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude."
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"Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy."
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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."
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"Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top."
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"There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life."
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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
Music
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
Lifestyle
"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."
Lifestyle
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
Identity
"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"
Time
"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."
Lifestyle
"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."
Control
"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."
Music
"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."
Identity
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