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Wynton Marsalis

"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."

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"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."

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Amber Hurdle

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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Amber Hurdle

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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"I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it."

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"But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic."

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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"Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches."
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"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."
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"I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it."
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"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."
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"The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible."
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"There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs."
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"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
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"I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown."
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"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
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"I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play."
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