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"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness."
"Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business."
"I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life."
"I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores."
"You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes."
"That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about."
"I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles."
"Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'"
"I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have."
"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."
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