The Swinging Door : 1 of 14

You know why I stopped playing ballads? Because I loved playing ballads so much.

Miles Davis

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is a lot like jazz, it’s best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

For if there is more tragic a fool than a businessman who doesn’t know that he’s an exponent of man’s highest creative spirit - it’s the artist who thinks that the businessman is his enemy.

Richard Halley in Atlas Shrugged

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Some really intriguing improvisatory music of a trio from Paris.

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I think people try to imitate what they like and what moves them. The strong artist will imitate but do it wrong and that wrongness is their originality.

Marc Ribot

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The man hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons , stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the Music.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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I don’t have any message, except don’t forget you’re alive. Because sometimes when you walk around the city or when you yourself are in a bad mood, you can think ‘Hey wait a minute! We’re alive, you know?’ We don’t know what the next second will bring.

Joe Strummer

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I’ve always kept that going, finding strange records and trying to learn from them - so as not to keep it narrow because if you keep it very narrow it’s going to kill the life of the music.

Joe Strummer

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Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime

Chinese Proverb

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