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"I want to make the world better."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."
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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove."
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"I don't think events in your life affect your music."
Life
"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then."
Politics
"I want to make the world better."
Want
"If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about."
Money
"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."
Mistake
"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano."
Poetry
"Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much."
Love
"I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine."
Music
"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."
Music
"There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years."
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