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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
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"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
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"But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights."
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"Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later."
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"I didn't like the way the game was being played."
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"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common."
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"With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy."
People
"What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image."
People
"I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years."
Years
"Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them."
Music
"My music has always been strong in melodic content."
Music
"I have been recording for five decades now."
Now
"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
Being
"Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies."
Music
"Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes."
Jazz
"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."
Performance
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