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"We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us."
Father
"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."
Progress
"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."
Music
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
Democracy
"Thank the good Lord for a job."
Job
"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."
Now
"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."
Education
"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."
Music
"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"
Music
"This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King."
Opportunity
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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Personal Development
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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Personal Development
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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Personal Development
"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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Personal Development
"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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Personal Development
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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Personal Development
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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Personal Development
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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Personal Development
"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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Personal Development
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