"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."

Mistake, Fault, Silence, World, Years

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"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."

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"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano."

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"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."

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"If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about."

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"I don't think events in your life affect your music."

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"There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years."

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"Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not."

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"I want to make the world better."

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"I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas."

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"I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine."

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"Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much."

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."

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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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