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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."
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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that."
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"I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit."
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"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."
American

"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."
Adolescence

"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
Father

"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
Thought

"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."
Goal

"In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures."
Architecture

"Every memorial in its time has a different goal."
Time

"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."
Home

"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."
Death

"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."
Nature
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