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The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for another two or three hours, or that would make Louis Armstrong travel around the world for fifty plus years non stop, just get up out of his sick bed, crawl up on the bandstand and play, the thing that would make Duke Ellington, the thing that would make Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Mary Lou Williams, the thing that would make all of these people give their lives for this, and they did give their lives, is that it gives us a glimpse into what America is going to be when it becomes itself. And this music tells you that it will become itself. And when you get a taste of that, there’s just nothing else you’re going to taste that’s as sweet.


Wynton Marsalis


#jazz #ken-burns #music

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win.


Ilona Andrews


#ilona-andrews #kate #kate-daniels #magic-burns #maps

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.


Felix Adler


#altar #burns #ethical #fire #itself

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.


Maya Angelou


#bitterness #burns #cancer #clean #eats

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.


Richard Bach


#burns #fire #jonathan #little #lives

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.


Roger Bacon


#argument #avoid #burns #experiment #fire

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.


Henry Ward Beecher


#burns #cannot #endure #fed #flame

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.


Bobby Darin


#ashes #burns #cigar #comes #flips

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.


Henry Fonda


#bette #bette davis #burns #cigarette #close

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.


Kim Kardashian


#burns #case #clothes #down #family






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