The World Of The Arts Is By

No Author Dislikes To Be Edited As Much As He Dislikes Not To Be Published.

Wasting Time Is Negative, But There Is Something Positive About Idleness.

Improvisation Was The Blood And Bone Of Jazz, And In The Classic, New Orleans Jazz It Was Collective Improvisation In Which Each Performer, Seemingly Going His Own Melodic Way, Played In Harmony, Dissonance, Or Counterpoint With The Improvisations Of His Colleagues. Quite Unlike Ragtime, Which Was Written Down In Many Cases By Its Composers And Could Be Repeated Note For Note (if Not Expression For Expression) By Others, Jazz Was A Performer's Not A Composer's Art.

Friends Never Make Assumptions About You. They Never Expect A Reason To Go Out With You. In Fact Friends Only Expect You To Be You.

It Is Always Well To Accept Your Own Shortcomings With Candor But To Regard Those Of Your Friends With Polite Incredulity.