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Herbie Mann

"You don't have to live the blues to play the blues."

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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."

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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."

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"After you play a part, you think of it as your own."

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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

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"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."

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"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."
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"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus."
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"For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian."
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"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."
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"When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now."
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"I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar."
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