"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."

Music, People, Being, Reason

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"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."

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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

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"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."

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"I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things."

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"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."

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"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun."

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"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."

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"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."

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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

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