"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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"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."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

First, Illusion

"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

First, Mind, James M. Baldwin

"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."

Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

First, Ireland

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

First, Universe

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

First,

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

First, Living

"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

First, Musicians, Public

""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."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

First, Meaning, Old, Principles

"The First Amendment is not without limits."

Jerry Falwell, American Clergyman

First, Limits

"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."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

First, Kings, Play

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"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."

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"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

Music

"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."

Activism

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

Education

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

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"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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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

""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."

"The First Amendment is not without limits."

"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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"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."

"You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents."

"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."

"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

"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."

"Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance."