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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.
“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)
