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"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."
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"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
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"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."
"There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted."
"The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved."
"When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population."
"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
"I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it."
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"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
"And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it."
"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."
"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."
"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."
"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."
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