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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz
"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
Music
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
Sound
"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."
Time
"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place."
Soul
"I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly."
Deep
"From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles."
Culture
"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."
Time
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."
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Personal Development
"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way."
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Personal Development
"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."
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Personal Development
"The most beautiful person is a person with kind heart and loving soul."
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Personal Development
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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Personal Development
"The true beauty of your life can only shine when your decisions and actions are in line with your true positive self."
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Personal Development
"Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful."
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Personal Development
"True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life."
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Personal Development
"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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Personal Development
"Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied."
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Personal Development
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