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"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
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"Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely."
"He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect."
"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"
".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
"Memories rob us of the present."
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"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
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