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Harvey Pekar Quotes

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

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Free Musicians New Young Say Jazz

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Work Myself Grateful I Am Living

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.

Love Home Myself People Hometown

I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the first time I saw Janis Joplin.

Time Me World Loved First Time Saw

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

New York People Think New Insight

Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

You Find New Sometimes Say Wow

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Michael Showalter

Good Think Doing You Out Own

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

Education Myself Soul My Soul Trying

I've been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what won't. I can tell instantly if it's a hero or a zero.

Work Hero Feel Long I Can Will

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

Age Destination Trouble Our

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

Advertising Brand You Know Done Why

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

Focus Practice Giving Attention Eat

I'm very open to constructive criticism.

Criticism Open Constructive Criticism

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