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I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

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I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

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For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

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Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

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I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

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I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

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A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

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The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.

Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
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This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel good?

Robert Pinsky, The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow
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Quotes is just quotes, cannot change your world if you not do think in that quotes, so just go and do anything...

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