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Dexter Gordon

"To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche."

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Donna Grant

"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."

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Donna Grant

"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."

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Donna Grant

"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."

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Donna Grant

"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."

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Donna Grant

"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."

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Donna Grant

"God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it."

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Donna Grant

"If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!"

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Donna Grant

"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."

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Donna Grant

"If I can't quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that's killing itself in the very act of feeding itself."

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Donna Grant

"Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them."

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Dexter Gordon
"When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem."

Being

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

Play

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Dexter Gordon
"Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people."

Music

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Dexter Gordon
"To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche."

Ego

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Dexter Gordon
"A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on."

Opportunity

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Dexter Gordon
"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."

Building

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Dexter Gordon
"The music scene is more competitive in the States."

Music

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Dexter Gordon
"Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future."

Music

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Dexter Gordon
"Music is a reservoir... of sounds."

Music

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Dexter Gordon
"If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something."

Music

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