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"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
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"My life is an open book; at least this photo album."
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"That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad."
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"Memory may be pig-headed and want us to follow its whims along the blips and dips of our time line. ['All the words he always wanted to tell her.']"
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"What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."
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"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."
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"Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ['Paper boats forever']"
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"A song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."
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"All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below."
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"Removing memories is difficult.... changing is easy...- Dexter."
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"Oh, oh, oh being a soldier... I remember that day... and that time.. and some moments.. I am still confused... as a soldier you could kill first somebody without a reason with soldier way string from piano... as a second... we use codes likePanda on Black... Black and white... Over the Game... Game the Shit... and many others what do they mean!?!?- Ohhhhh... you don't want to know, do ya???"
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"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
Church
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
Music
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
Artist
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
Music
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
Memory
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
Singing
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
Thought
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