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"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."

"I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon."

"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

"Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack."

"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."

"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."

"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
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