"Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz." — Kurt Vonnegut
source: Palm Sunday
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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Ken Burns Quotes
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being." - Ken Burns
Nina Simone Quotes
"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were." - Nina Simone
Louis Armstrong Quotes
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago." - Louis Armstrong
