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"When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers."
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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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"Having a job is being busy."
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"CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant."
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"CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing."
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"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."
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"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."
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"I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all."
Time
"A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation."
Purpose
"When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together."
Music
"As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music."
Love
"Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music."
Family
"When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging."
People
"I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it."
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"I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression."
Wife
"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
Father
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