When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
From James McBride
I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.
The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.
I just love music, and I love what music does for people.
When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?
My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
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