Jason Moran Quotes
I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.
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I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.
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Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
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It's totally fun to play troublemakers - totally.
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I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
