Norman Granz Quotes
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
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Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
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'The Shining' scares me so much.
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
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In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.
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There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
