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"I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
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"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
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"Seth joined the group of very stern-looking men, and they immediately started talking, their voices too low for me to hear, but it didn't stop me from trying. I learned fairly quickly that I sucked at reading lips. Everything looked like they were saying "tomatoes or "I love you and I doubted that was what was being said."
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"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
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"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues."
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"During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else."
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"I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that."
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"Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love."
Love
"I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that."
War
"Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done."
Music
"My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen."
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