Roscoe Mitchell quote: "To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition."

My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, ex...
ROSCOE MITCHELL

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
ROSCOE MITCHELL

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.
ROSCOE MITCHELL

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.
ROSCOE MITCHELL

If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibi...
ROSCOE MITCHELL

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without ...
ROSCOE CONKLING

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
ROSCOE POUND

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the wo...
ROSCOE SNOWDEN

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.
ROSCOE CONKLING

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
ROSCOE POUND

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
ROSCOE POUND

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I r...
ROSCOE CONKLING

I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
ROSCOE BARTLETT

I knew I was going to have to run, and I came out and I hustled. I knew they (Badger) were going to ...
LAUREN ROSCOE

She's not a rogue, and she's not a saboteur.
ROSCOE HOWARD

Right now, success is judged by how much energy is used. Think about it, the person who is successfu...
ROSCOE BARTLETT

It takes great courage to admit that you've made a mistake,
ROSCOE BARTLETT

These are not government dollars, ... These are your dollars.
ROSCOE BARTLETT

You and I need to inform the public of the peaking of oil and the energy crisis that is coming in th...
ROSCOE BARTLETT

I went into the classroom and let the kids listen to my daughter's heartbeat and feel my stomach. My...
DONNA ROSCOE

I think it's horrible because so many people are going to miss those first two days of class. For so...
LAUREN ROSCOE

Our team is just awesome. I have the best teammates, and we get along so well. We have great leaders...
LAUREN ROSCOE

We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.
LAUREN ROSCOE

The bus boycott was instrumental in the desegregation in the community. It is unbelievable the atroc...
JOAN ROSCOE

It was amazing to hear from and about different people from different walks of life and the impressi...
JOAN ROSCOE

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a p...
JOAN ROSCOE

The family that is left never considered what she was doing as historically significant. I had short...
JOAN ROSCOE

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still
ROSCOE POUND

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already ...
RADHA MITCHELL

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
RADHA MITCHELL

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
RADHA MITCHELL

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens...
RADHA MITCHELL

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
RADHA MITCHELL

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody A...
RADHA MITCHELL

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally yo...
RADHA MITCHELL

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
RADHA MITCHELL

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
RADHA MITCHELL

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the tim...
RADHA MITCHELL

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
RADHA MITCHELL

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to...
RADHA MITCHELL

Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He di...
RADHA MITCHELL

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit ...
RADHA MITCHELL

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ...
RADHA MITCHELL

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same t...
RADHA MITCHELL

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different t...
RADHA MITCHELL

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
RADHA MITCHELL

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vamp...
RADHA MITCHELL

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately i...
RADHA MITCHELL

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollyw...
RADHA MITCHELL

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in som...
RADHA MITCHELL

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a fo...
RADHA MITCHELL

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
RADHA MITCHELL

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
WARREN MITCHELL

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Cathol...
WARREN MITCHELL

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to...
WARREN MITCHELL

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weak...
VICTOR MITCHELL

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. ...
VICTOR MITCHELL

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
VICTOR MITCHELL

My son's a West Point cadet.
VICTOR MITCHELL

We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
VICTOR MITCHELL

We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
VICTOR MITCHELL

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
VICTOR MITCHELL

My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a publi...
VICTOR MITCHELL

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anyb...
VICTOR MITCHELL

I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our sy...
MITCHELL BAKER

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set u...
JONI MITCHELL

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psycho...
JONI MITCHELL

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was liste...
JONI MITCHELL

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with resp...
JONI MITCHELL

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want peop...
JONI MITCHELL

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to ...
JONI MITCHELL

I learned a woman is never an old woman.
JONI MITCHELL

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in ...
JONI MITCHELL

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn...
JONI MITCHELL

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
JONI MITCHELL

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely ment...
JONI MITCHELL

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
JONI MITCHELL

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.
JONI MITCHELL

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotio...
JONI MITCHELL

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the free...
JONI MITCHELL

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew a...
JONI MITCHELL

I see music as fluid architecture.
JONI MITCHELL

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still...
JONI MITCHELL

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
JONI MITCHELL

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused a...
PAT MITCHELL

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of bus...
PAT MITCHELL

TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important i...
PAT MITCHELL

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as th...
PAT MITCHELL

Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resou...
PAT MITCHELL

TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everyth...
PAT MITCHELL

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.
SHAY MITCHELL

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
MAIA MITCHELL

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
MAIA MITCHELL

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per...
MAIA MITCHELL

It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be l...
MAIA MITCHELL

If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'...
MAIA MITCHELL

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL

My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very mi...
JONI MITCHELL

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting...
JONI MITCHELL

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on th...
EDGAR MITCHELL

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou...
EDGAR MITCHELL

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my h...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is re...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's n...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &...
ELVIS MITCHELL

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue ey...
SHAY MITCHELL

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s...
RICHARD MITCHELL

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as ...
RICHARD MITCHELL

It was good to get that early lead and not let them back in the game. We have had the tendency to no...
ABBIE MITCHELL

It was a nice game for our seniors. I'm really proud of the way they are playing heading towards the...
ABBIE MITCHELL

Brittany is just eating it up right now. She's been in a groove all week. She's been nailing the bal...
ABBIE MITCHELL

They've just been so focused. Between the two of them, they went 28 straight innings without allowin...
ABBIE MITCHELL

It's unbelievable. You know you set goals, little goals, for weeks of the season and they did it. I'...
ABBIE MITCHELL

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
ADRIAN MITCHELL

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
ADRIAN MITCHELL

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary ...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

I don't like writing essays or theory.
ADRIAN MITCHELL

It changed poetry for ever in the UK. It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

[The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rej...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

It's about sitting faithfully in England while thousands of miles away terrible atrocities are being...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people
ADRIAN MITCHELL

The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. W...
SHAY MITCHELL

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call th...
DAVID MITCHELL

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to part...
ADRIAN MITCHELL

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o...
DAVID MITCHELL

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the s...
DAVID MITCHELL

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
DAVID MITCHELL

Look here, Mrs. Bradley," he said. "I feel a pretty frightful bounder telling you all this about the...
GLADYS MITCHELL

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
DAVID MITCHELL

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be ...
WARREN MITCHELL

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
JONI MITCHELL

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be...
MARGARET MITCHELL

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.
JULIET MITCHELL

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
MARGARET MITCHELL

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.
ALEX MITCHELL

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
MARGARET MITCHELL

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL

In a way, this diversity is very exciting, but one has at some point to ask: are these real beginnin...
JULIET MITCHELL

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world ...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
JONI MITCHELL

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
WARREN MITCHELL

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
JONI MITCHELL

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
JONI MITCHELL

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want ...
JONI MITCHELL

Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopp...
FRED MITCHELL

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
MARGARET MITCHELL

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
MARGARET MITCHELL

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.
DAVID MITCHELL

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
MITCHELL CAPLAN

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and no...
MITCHELL BURGESS

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese be...
MITCHELL BURGESS

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflectio...
MITCHELL BURGESS

I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
ADRIAN MITCHELL

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion....
JONI MITCHELL

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and televis...
JONI MITCHELL

But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Austra...
RADHA MITCHELL

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
ELVIS MITCHELL

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

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