Quotes of the Day
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
To be playing music was to be free.
- JAN BRABEC,
- the former drummer of the Czech band Plastic People of the Universe, on why his group, which helped inspire the Nov. 17 "velvet revolution" in 1989, kept performing despite police threats
Photo: Peter Turnley / Corbis | Source: NEW YORK TIMES
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