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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
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