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"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
Consciousness

"Nature was my kindergarten."
Nature

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day

"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music

"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
Love

"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
Boats

"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."
Art

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
Life

"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
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"I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats."
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"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
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"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
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"I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock."
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"Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns."
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"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."
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"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
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