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Illusions is jazz saxophonist Arthur Blythe's third album for the Columbia label, recorded in New York City in 1980. Reception From contemporary reviews, Robert Palmer placed the album at fifth place in his best of 1980 list for the New York Times, proclaiming Blythe to be a "formidable alto saxophonist" and that the funk tunes on the album "proved that substantial yet danceable jazz isn't an impossible dream." From retrospective reviews, Scott Yanow of AllMusic states that "the distinctive alto of Blythe is heard in top form on six of his unusual originals ... It's recommended."

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Notable quotes

“It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
— George Carlin, from his "Life is worth Losing" stand-up routine (2005)
“The shedding of easy solutions, of comforting illusions may be painful, but it leaves behind it a feeling of freedom and … the absurd which do not seem in any normal sense of the words, to be noteworthy...”
— Martin Esslin, in Eric Lionel Mascall The Christian universe, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1966, p. 33.
“Commonly, the word "myth" is now used to mean an illusion or a lie, as when we speak of the rumors and myths of the engines that were supposed to run on water instead of gasoline.”
— Sam Keen, in The Passionate Life : Stages of Loving (1992), p. 20.
“We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.”
— Barnett Newman in : Jacob Baal-Teshuva Rothko. Ediz. Inglese, Taschen, 2003, p. 37.
“No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it.”
— Sanu Sharma, Tee Saat Din
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1944).

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Notable quotes

“It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
— George Carlin, from his "Life is worth Losing" stand-up routine (2005)
“The shedding of easy solutions, of comforting illusions may be painful, but it leaves behind it a feeling of freedom and … the absurd which do not seem in any normal sense of the words, to be noteworthy...”
— Martin Esslin, in Eric Lionel Mascall The Christian universe, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1966, p. 33.
“Commonly, the word "myth" is now used to mean an illusion or a lie, as when we speak of the rumors and myths of the engines that were supposed to run on water instead of gasoline.”
— Sam Keen, in The Passionate Life : Stages of Loving (1992), p. 20.
“We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.”
— Barnett Newman in : Jacob Baal-Teshuva Rothko. Ediz. Inglese, Taschen, 2003, p. 37.
“No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it.”
— Sanu Sharma, Tee Saat Din
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1944).

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Illusions across IJR