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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."

"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."

"Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."

"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."

"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."

"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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