Christian Scott Quotes
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
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Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.
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Surfing - I have to go surfing.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
