Booker Little quotes
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“My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.”
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“Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.”
-- Booker Little
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
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