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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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"The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones."
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"I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player."
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"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."
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"Big Brother is watching... look busy."
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"Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother."
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"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison."
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"The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory."
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"I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child."
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"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."
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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
"The role of art in society differs for every artist."
Art
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
Funny
"Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next."
Nothing
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Family
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
Architecture
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
Love
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
Architecture
"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
Father
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