Christian Scott I came up with a ‘forecasting cell,’ which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go. – Christian Scott Basically Quotes Cell Quotes Chord Quotes Complete Quotes Consonance Quotes Dissonance Quotes Forecasting Quotes Hybrid Quotes Improvising Quotes Intention Quotes Lead Quotes Mixed Quotes Supposed Quotes My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that’s really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn’t like any one of them singularly. New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class – the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y’know?
Alex Chilton I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don’t think I’m in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. – Alex Chilton
Jon Favreau I find that people… very few people think that what they’re doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they’re doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. – Jon Favreau
Gore Vidal In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are. – Gore Vidal
Francesca Annis I don’t think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17. – Francesca Annis
Anna Karina Quite simply, I owe everything to Jean-Luc. He taught me everything I know about films, about books, about art, about life. – Anna Karina
Gordon Getty If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It’s a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about. – Gordon Getty
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