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“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”
Happy Birthday, DAVID BOWIE

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2023-01-08

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
Happy belated Birthday (December 8 ) Lucien Freud @

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2022-12-11

“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.”
Happy Birthday Dave Brubeck! davebrubeck

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2022-12-06

“With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon." Happy Birthday multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist FELA Aníkúlápó KUTI

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2022-10-15

“I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can’t define it beyond that.”
Happy Birthday to the “Holy Man”, pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer William James COUNT BASIE

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2022-08-21

“I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”
Happy Birthday, composer/vocalist/actress ABBEY LINCOLN

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2022-08-06

“I am trying to teach myself to be as playful and uninhibited in music as I am in embroidery.” Portrait for an article about the brilliant singer/songwriter/visual artist Cecile McLorin Salvant for an online jazz magazine that was never published

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2022-06-29

Happy 50th Birthday to my friend and favorite collaborator, the great multi-Grammy Award winning composer/bassist Christian McBride! Covers created through the years.

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2022-05-31

“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.“
Happy Birthday DAVID BOWIE!

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2022-01-08

“It's the essence of jazz. That's what it's all about. Not to repeat yourself.”
Happy Birthday to master saxophonist JOE LOVANO portrait

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2021-12-30

“The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.”
Happy belated Birthday (December 18) LIV ULLMAN .words

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2021-12-20

“I never liked Elvis until I met Keith Richards,” The only rock ’n’ roll player I ever liked when I was young was Fats Domino.” Goodnight🌙 CHARLIE WATTS icial s

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2021-08-26

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
Happy Birthday, Eleanora Fagan / BILLIE HOLIDAY .words

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2021-04-07

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Happy Birthday, BOB MARLEY

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2021-02-07

"I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it." - artist Wayne Thiebaud, who turned 100 last November.

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2021-02-03