"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."

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

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"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."

Benny Green, British Musician

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

Colin Greenwood, British Musician

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"Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play."

Robert Englund, American Actor

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"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."

Frankie Avalon, American Actor

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"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."

David Ives, American Playwright

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"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."

Ornette Coleman, American Musician

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"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."

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"A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play."

"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."

"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."

"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."

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"What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it."

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"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."

"A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on."

"Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future."

"The music scene is more competitive in the States."

"Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people."

"If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something."