"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."

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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."

"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."

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"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."

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"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more."

"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."