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"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."
Art
"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
Money
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
Life
"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
Consciousness
"Nature was my kindergarten."
Nature
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
Guitar
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day
"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music
"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
Love
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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Personal Development
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music is breath of life."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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