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Source (by request): X-Men Origin: Jean Grey (2008) #1
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“I am the greatest swordsman that ever lived. Say, um, can I have some of that water?”
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In the paint booth working on this mappa burl snare.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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keep calm and carry on. (by br0-mantic)
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Unemployed librarian employs herself by collecting donated books and setting up make-shift libraries around Brooklyn. Proving that you may need a...
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Nice follow-up quote from Erroll Garner a few chapters after the Miles Davis quote I posted earlier:
“I always play for my audience … The day you say you don’t need your public, you should give up your instrument and quit, I don’t care who you are.”
I’m really living this book. I wish I could shake Art Taylor’s hand for doing these interviews with so many giants.
Who chi who chi coo
Art Taylor:: What does 'who chi coo' mean, and how do you spell it?
Erroll Garner:: Just the way it sounds. 'Who chi coo' is an expression that Sarah Vaughan and I used all the time years ago, because we were very good friends ... It means "magnificent obsession." If I dig what you do, when we're playing, you're a magnificent obsession; if I don't, I say nothing. So when I say "Who chi who chi coo," that means you really are a magnificent obsession.
“Art Tatum really turned me on … One day he said, ‘Don, don’t ever worry about what you’re going to play or where the ideas are going to come from. Just remember there is no such thing as a wrong note.’ He said, ‘What makes a note wrong is when you don’t know where to go after that one’ … You hit one. If that’s not right, you hit another. If that’s not right you hit another one, so you just keep hitting … As long as you keep going you’re all right, but don’t stop, because if you stop you’re in trouble. Don’t ever stop unless you’re at a station.”
Don Byas, interviewed by Art Taylor in Paris, November 11, 1969 (from Taylor’s book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews)
“The thing is, I never think about an audience. I just think about the band. And if the band is all right, I know the audience is pleased. I don’t have to hold the audience’s hand. I think audiences are hipper than musicians think they are. They wouldn’t be there if they didn’t want to hear some music, so you don’t have to con them into believing that this music is great. I figure they can judge for themselves, and those who don’t like it don’t have to like it, and those who do like it will have a nice time listening. If I go to a concert, I take it like that.”
Miles Davis, interviewed by Art Taylor in New York City, January 22, 1968 (from Taylor’s book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews)
