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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
Jazz,
"I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before."
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."
Jazz,
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz,
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
Jazz,
"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
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."
"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up."
"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."
"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."
"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."
"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."
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