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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
Change
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
People
"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
Music
"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination
"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
Love
"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
Jazz
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
Music
"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
Being
"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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