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"The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

"Quality is better than quantity."

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."

"In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries."

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."


"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."


"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."


"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."


"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."


"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."


"People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?"


"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."


"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."


"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
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