"I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success."
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"He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying."
"The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture."
"I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me."
"I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily."
"Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking."
"Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac."
"Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category."
"What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?"
"True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent."
"Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy."
"Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it."
"The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience."
"Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj."
"If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life."
"Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety."
"The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor."
"Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me."
"I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me."
"In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God."