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"That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty."
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"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."

"In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together."

"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."

"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."

"It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance."

"Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted."
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"Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light."


"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."


"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved."


"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."


"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."


"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."


"As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely."


"I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight."


"Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful."
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