Dani :)

“There is in this a cruel contradiction implicit in the art form itself. For true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group. Each true jazz moment (as distinct from the uninspired commercial performance) springs from a contest in which each artist challenges all the rest; each solo flight, or improvisation, represents (like the successive canvases of a painter) a definition of his identity: as individual, as member of the collectivity and as a link in the chain of tradition. Thus, because jazz finds its very life in an endless improvisation upon traditional materials, the jazzman must lose his identity even as he finds it — how often do we see even the most famous of jazz artists being devoured alive by their imitators, and, shamelessly, in the public spotlight?”
― Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act

“All four once more together.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Ahora yo no sé si vas a poder leer esta carta, pero igual siento como una necesidad de decirte que yo contigo he sido más feliz de lo que los libros dicen que se puede. Perdóname si tantas veces me anduve quejando por bobadas. Un día me dijiste que yo tenía cara de mujer a la que siempre se vuelve y yo te espero ahora o cuando sea y donde sea y como sea. Quiero que sepas.”
― Eduardo Galeano, La canción de nosotros

“What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After