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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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"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
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"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."
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"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
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"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."
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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."
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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!"
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"How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice."
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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."
Family
"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."
Change
"Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much."
Love
"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."
Mistake
"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
Business
"I don't think events in your life affect your music."
Life
"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."
Poetry
"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then."
Politics
"I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing."
Music
"I want to make the world better."
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