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"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
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"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."
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"Judicious absence is a weapon."
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"Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics."
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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."
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"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."
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"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."
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"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much."
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"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."
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"Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo."
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"Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working."
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"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."
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"In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it."
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"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."
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"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
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"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."
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"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work."
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