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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."

"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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"There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed."

"I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood."

"My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland."

"I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way."

"This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me."

"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."

"It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century."
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