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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."
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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 held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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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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"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."
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"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
Mistake
"It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible."
Living
"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."
Age
"The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent."
Movies
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
Education
"My songs are like my kids."
Kids
"Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are."
Life
"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
Opinion
"Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers."
Experience
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