Donald Byrd quotes
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“I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,”
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“Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.”
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“I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.”
-- Donald ByrdSource : "Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator". www.latimes.com. February 11, 2013.
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“My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.”
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“My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.”
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“I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies.”
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“I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.”
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“It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.”
-- Donald Byrd
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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“When one door opens, so does another one.”
Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”
Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.
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