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"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
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"Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"You can believe in Christ and live a Christ like life."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
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"We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
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"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Time
"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
Music
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
Help
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Truth
"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."
Education
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."
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