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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― The Middle Years
― The Middle Years
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
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“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project
“He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.”
― But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
― But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny”
― The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
― The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
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