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"It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
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"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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"It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play."
Music
"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
Trouble
"We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again."
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"We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old."
Life
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
Home
"Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?"
Job
"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."
Heart
"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."
People
"I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe."
Europe
"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother."
Brother
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