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"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
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"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."

"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."
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"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

"I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me."

"You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be."

"But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way."

"Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice."

"For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian."
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