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And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
The harmonica is a great instrument.
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.
Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
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