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“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”
― Duke Ellington

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
― Stephen McCranie

“His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others but to himself...He demanded freedom of expression and lived in what we consider the most important of moral freedoms; freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from all self-pity (even throughout all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might help another more than it might help himself; and freedom from that kind of pride that could make a man feel he was better than his brother or neighbor”
― Duke Ellington

“Organization implies a tendency to oligarchy. In every organization, whether it be a political party, a professional union, or any other association of any kind, the aristocratic tendency manifests itself very clearly. As a result of organization, every party or professional union becomes divided into a minority of directors and a majority of directed.”
― Robert Michels, Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy