#stand

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comedians #create #created #demand #easy

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#head #i #imagination #music #never

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#because #elusive #hard #hold #how

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#became #being #cases #child #child abuse

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#child #fetch #five #send #someone

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#could #find #head #i #make

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#deal #human #human mind #impotence #mind

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#does #expresses #individuals #relations #society

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. ↗

— Karl Marx

#because #below #far #labor #mental