Arthur Jafa Quotes
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
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It is one of those contradictions of life that although measurement always carries uncertainty, the uncertainty in measurement is rarely discussed.
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Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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Most of what we see are white people.
