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"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
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"Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"You can believe in Christ and live a Christ like life."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
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"We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
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"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music."
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"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
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"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
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"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."
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"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."
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"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
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"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
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"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
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"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
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