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"When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"The First Amendment is not without limits."
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"I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."
Now
"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."
Brother
"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."
Progress
"Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance."
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"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."
Money
"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
Imagination
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
Democracy
"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"
Music
"It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory."
People
"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
Musicians
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