Frank Sinatra sings Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)” in concert in 1982, accompanied by Tony Mottola on guitar:

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“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

Heinrich Heine, Almansor: A Tragedy

“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

Weather Report, featuring Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, performs Zawinul’s “Black Market” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976:

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“Expansion should continue, but you don’t have to tear down the house you’re living in to invite guests in.”

Steve Reich, interviewed by Neil Fisher (London Times, June 29, 2021)

From 2010:

I don’t go out of my way to read everything that gets written about me, but I do see a fair amount of it in the ordinary course of my working day, and it never fails to strike me that a considerable number of the people who write about the pieces that they read, whether by me or anyone else, haven’t actually read them. Or, to be exact, they read until they encounter a statement with which they disagree, at which precise moment they stop reading, boil over, and start clicking away at their keyboards with what they imagine to be annihilating fury….

“The idea that great artists become the most exemplary human beings is a romantic wish, but demonstrably not the case.”

Steve Reich, interviewed by Neil Fisher (London Times, June 29, 2021)

Herbie Hancock talks about Miles Davis in an undated TV interview:

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