Quotation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson

It may seem as though this week’s Quotation is off topic.  But the people in music are as impacted by the actions of banks and credit institutions as anyone else.   If those actions were a danger in Jefferson’s time — as they obviously were — they’re an even greater danger at a time when instantaneous media and inadequate government supervision combine to generate so many more ways to “deprive the people of all property.”

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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Thomas Jefferson

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Quotation of the Week: Thelonious Monk

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“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you’re doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”

- Thelonious Monk.

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Quotation of the Week: Wynton Marsalis

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” When a group of people try to invent something together, there’s bound to be a lot of conflict. Jazz urges you to accept the decisions of others. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow, but you can’t give up, no matter what. It is the art of negotiating change with style.”

Wynton Marsalis

(From Moving to Higher Ground. How Jazz Can Change Your Life by Wynton Marsalis)

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Quotation of the Week: Barbra Streisand

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“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”

Barbra Streisand

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Quotation of the Week: Michael Jackson (2)

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“Music has been my outlet, my gift to all the lovers in this world.  Through it — my music — I know I will live forever.”

Michael Jackson (Ebony Magazine, Dec. 2007)

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Quotation of the Week: Frank Zappa

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“Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.”

Frank Zappa

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Quotation of the Week: Joni MItchell

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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”

Joni Mitchell

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Quotation of the Week: Frank Sinatra

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““You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad – if you’re indifferent, Endsville.”

Frank Sinatra

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Quotation of the Week: James Brown

“I’ve outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss.  Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes.  I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

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Quotation of the Week: Brian Wilson

“Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever.”

Brian Wilson