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George Shearing

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill."

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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

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"Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun.""

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"My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'"

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"I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time."
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"Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place."
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"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."
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"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."
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"I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947."
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"I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation."
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"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."
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"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children."
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"Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on."
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"Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not."
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