"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

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"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."

"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."

"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."

"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."

"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."

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"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

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"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

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"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."

"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

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