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"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."
Jazz,
"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz,
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."
"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
Explore more quotes by Ted Rall
"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."
"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."
"But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches."
"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."
"Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away."
"Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else."
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