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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.

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Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.

Individual, Instrument, Jazz, Men, Musician

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

Art, Excitement, Jazz, Joy, Joys

There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.

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Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong.

Critic, Criticism, Everybody, Functioning, Meaningful, Risk

If you're genuinely candid and expressive then you're never wrong, even when you are wrong.

Candid, Expressive, Genuinely, Wrong
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