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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.


George Santayana

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BJORN ULVAEUS Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.
ALAN KING We've always been among the very finest college art museums in the South and probably America. But n...
ARTHUR BLUMENTHAL Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We ...
PABLO PICASSO The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New Yor...
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DIANE COLEMAN The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
JERRY SALTZ In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museu...
JANET FLANNER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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THE EDGE I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there [in New Orleans]. I call it the onl...
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GEORGE WILL To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. K...
ROBERT J. FUREY The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things ne...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ...
JACK ZIPES Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....
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REGGIE WATTS This [gift] puts Signature on the map with major theaters in New York, like the Public Theater and L...
ERIC SCHAEFFER Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j...
ART BLAKEY Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
BILL GRIFFITH To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhy...
ISADORA DUNCAN Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new in...
NINA SIMONE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is...
EDDIE PALMIERI What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A...
AMELIA EARHART I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.
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JERRY SALTZ It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
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DAVID MARSCHALL ...good relationships are based on kindness. On putting the person you love before yourself. On thin...
JANE GREEN I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me a...
TANYA FISCHER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ......
ALICE COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... A...
ALICE COOPER What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
ARNOLD PALMER Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it.
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STEVE JOBS One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom...
AMY WHITAKER Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy mac...
JERRY SALTZ Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ European musicians didn't learn popular music, whereas in America we did, ... So you played in bands...
PHILIP GLASS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
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Because if you are making mistakes, ...
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GERALD EARLY I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study t...
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DARRELL DICKEY Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, th...
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JAKA BIZILJ I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in th...
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ROGER MILLA This one is going to be shown in museums. It's an art film.
MICHAEL NOVACK Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.
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EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm...
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EDWARD FOX The whole concept is a little bit new. Even George will admit he?s learned a few new things.
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BRENT ALEXANDER A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than ...
JOHN COTTON DANA This is how to understand America. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on t...
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GARRETT TEMPLE The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to Ame...
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CHRIS LEE Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
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COREY TAYLOR I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I'...
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MARK LEAMAN It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
KATE MICUCCI Make good art.
NEIL GAIMAN Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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MARI CARMEN RAMIREZ You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We celebrate our history and the new generation of young emerging jazz artists who dedicate their he...
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Sanity is madness put to good use.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crim...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death on...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death sup...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self...
GEORGE SANTAYANA One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subj...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old ag...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflecti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of th...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a v...
GEORGE SANTAYANA If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
GEORGE SANTAYANA A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeab...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under w...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at s...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
GEORGE SANTAYANA I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Habit is stronger than reason.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Depression is rage spread thin.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA One real world is enough.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minute...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
GEORGE SANTAYANA People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast: it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
GEORGE SANTAYANA America is a young country with an old mentality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and ...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there rem...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
GEORGE SANTAYANA An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation sho...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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