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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." -Henry David Thoreau

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -Hunter S. Thompson

"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say." -Samuel Johnson

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience." -James Freeman Clarke

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." -Moliere

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -George Bernard Shaw

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs." -Martin Luther

Here are a bunch of Wikipedia links for free jazz artists that haven't yet found a place somewhere else on freejazz.org...

• alan silva
• albert ayler
• alexander von schlippenbach
• alice coltrane
• AMM group
• andrew cyrille
• anthony braxton
• anthony davis
• archie shepp
• art ensemble of chicago

• barre phillips
• barry guy
• bill dixon
• carla bley
• cecil taylor
• charles gayle
• charles mingus
• charlie haden
• conny bauer
• daniel carter
• dave douglas
• dave holland
• david murray
• david s ware
• denis charles
• derek bailey
• dewey redman
• don byron
• don cherry
• don pullen
• ed blackwell
• elliott sharp
• elvin jones
• eric dolphy
• evan parker
• free improvisation
• george russell

• free jazz
• günter sommer
• globe unity orchestra
• hamid drake
• hamiet bluiett
• han bennink
• henry grimes
• irène schweizer
• jaki byard
• jimmy garrison
• jimmy giuffre
• jimmy lyons
• joëlle léandre
• joe harriott
• joe mcPhee
• joe morris
• joe morris
• john coltrane
• john stevens
• john tchicai
• john zorn
• joseph jarman
• julius hemphill
• karl berger
• keith jarrett
• keith rowe
• ken vandermark
• lennie tristano

• lester bowie
• louis moholo
• maggie nichols
• marilyn crispell
• marion brown
• mat maneri
• matthew shipp
• milford graves
• misha mengelberg
• muhal richard abrams
• myra melford
• nels cline
• oliver lake
• ornette coleman
• other dimensions in music
• paul bley
• peter brotzmann
• peter kowald
• pharoah sanders
• rahsaan roland kirk
• rashied ali
• richard davis

• roscoe mitchell
• roswell rudd
• sabir mateen
• sam rivers
• sonny sharrock
• steve dalachinsky
• steve lacy
• steve swallow
• sunny murray
• sun ra
• susie ibarra
• tim berne
• tony oxley
• vinny golia
• vision festival
• wadada leo smith
• willem breuker
• william parker
• world saxophone quartet