"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun."
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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
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"The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes."
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"I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me."
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
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"We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency."
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"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
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"Don't be a drag. Just be a queen."
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"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. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
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"I'm gonna live till I die."
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"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
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"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play."
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"This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world."
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"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."
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"Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!"
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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"Music is a defining element of character."
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"A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it."
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"The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words."
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