Lincoln Center Quotes

• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  Diana Ross

  Reflection, Curves, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Play, Diversity, Worry

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Art, Important, Culture

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• When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Educational, People

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.

  Hugh Hardy

  War, Brave, World

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• My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Father, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

  Sam Hamill

  Chinese, Scholar, Dictionary

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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