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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
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