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"Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that."
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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."
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"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is."
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"They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it."
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"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
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"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."
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"Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that."
Men

"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange."
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"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."
Music
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