"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."

Being, Water

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"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."

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"We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow."

Pain,

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."

Being, Water

"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."

Life, Money, Road, Stability

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

Motivational, Motivation, Artist, Attention

"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

Months, Years

"Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely."

Benefit, Benefits, Energy

"I can take criticisms but not compliments."

Compliment, Compliments

"It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way."

Time, Being, Discovery, Quiet

"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."

Music, Self

"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music."

Music, Power, Importance

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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."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Being is more important than doing."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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