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"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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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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"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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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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"I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?''Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse."
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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
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"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
Living
"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
Music
"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
Ideas
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
Being
"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
Fun
"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
Jokes
"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."
Idea
"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
Time
"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."
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