"I'd rather hear Thad Jones miss a note
than hear Freddie Hubbard make twelve."
~Miles Davis
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right.
But there are older and simpler and better words,
and those are the ones I use.”
~Ernest Hemingway
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
~Leonardo da Vinci