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Mary Lou Williams

"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

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Akiroq Brost

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

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"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."

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Akiroq Brost

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

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Akiroq Brost

"The First Amendment is not without limits."

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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."

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"First of all - I only believe what I see."

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"Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night."

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Mary Lou Williams
"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

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Mary Lou Williams
"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

Home

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Mary Lou Williams
"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."

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Mary Lou Williams
"One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family."

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Mary Lou Williams
"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper."

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