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"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
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"Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment."

"As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'"

"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment."

"I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment."

"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment."

"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."

"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."

"Eye Contact. Direct eye contact is one of the best compliments you can give to another. You are subliminally telling them that you are listening, they matter, and that what they have to say is important."

"Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them."

"Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive."
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"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."

"People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down."

"I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else."

"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."

"It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way."
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