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"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."
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"Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower."
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"The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning."
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"Keep calm and keep learning."
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"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."
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"Education is the best fertilizer for the mind."
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"Experience is a necessary education."
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"Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life."
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"Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy."
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"Begin to learn."
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"Education is the antidote to many poisons."
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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
"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."
Help
"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."
Education
"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."
Work
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."
Classroom
"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."
Country
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
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."
Living
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