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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
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"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."

"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."

"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
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