Gerry Mulligan Quotes
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
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If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.
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My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
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Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
