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"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
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"Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence."
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"Let Christ's great commission become yours."
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"The only calling we have is to "GO."
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"You need speed to regain your lost years."
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"The purpose of the church is outreach."
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"We were sent to earth to fulfill our mandate and life's purpose."
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"You know you have found your life mission when you say, "I dare you to try and take this away from me."
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"To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed."
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"The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not in spite of them."
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"God wants to use His Church to establish His Kingdom on the earth."
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"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
Mission
"There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room."
Character
"Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time."
Time
"It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown."
Years
"That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change."
Change
"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
Imagination
"When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person."
Thought
"I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does."
Work
"I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way."
Love
"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
Experience
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