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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."
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"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."
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"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets."
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"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."
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"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."
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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
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"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
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"There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed."
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"Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition."
Music
"You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time."
Time
"We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for."
Time
"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well."
Wind
"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball."
Football
"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."
Life
"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it."
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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."
Ability
"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."
Idea
"We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have."
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