Henry Threadgill quotes

“Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.”
-- Henry Threadgill

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“Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.”
-- Henry Threadgill

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“If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.”
-- Henry Threadgill

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“That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is.”
-- Henry Threadgill

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“People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people.”
-- Henry Threadgill

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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”

“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”

“This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.”

“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

“It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.”

“The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.”

“The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.