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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."

"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."

"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."

"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."

"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."

"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."

"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."

"When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision."

"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
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