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When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

Award Award Shows Big Big Deal
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I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing' paired back to back with 'Country Girl,' it just feels like the roof is fixin' to come off the place.

A Good Thing Back Come Country
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Different Universe Asking Bigger
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Come Celebrate That Something
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Am Drunken Glorious I Am
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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Good Heart Make Only
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Admit Errors Intolerable More
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Bring Eyes Fire Heart
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Music comes to me more readily than words.

Me More Music Readily
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I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Able Almost Am Any
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Accident Am Beethoven Birth
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Art Concerning Consult Goddess
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven Earth Else God
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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Between Life Mediator Music
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Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Alone Children Experience Happy
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Higher Music Philosophy Revelation
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

About Down Me Notes
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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Admirable Face Man Mark
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Cannot Comprehend Entrance Higher
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Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Better Fellow Give Greater
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Art Deserves Divine Force
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Acquainted Be The First Became Began
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Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

Trends Forever Around Standstill
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It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.

Just Disposable income People Feel good
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I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.

Master Time Ironic Watch business
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I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Am Another Begun Engaged
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If everyone can be as good as Madiba or Mother Theresa it could work. But people are not that nice. People act in their self interest.

Everyone Good People Nice
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I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Artistic Be Happy Before Come
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A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Allowed Altogether Artist Critics
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If you make a mistake as an employee, admit it to your superior, because then you own the problem together.

Mistake Employee Superior Problem together
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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Account Am Cannot Distance
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Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Actual Any Come Hear
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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If you are unemployed, get yourself an office. Why? So that you can get up in the morning and have a purpose to shower.
Unemployed Get Office Morning
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Choose competent people, place them in key positions, and trust their judgement implicitly.

Choose Competent people Place Positions
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You can’t do everything yourself, you have to employ competent people. It is a trick to recognize good people.

Everything yourself Employ competent People
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You have to interact with people. You can’t sit behind a computer and think you can learn something about life. Interact with people, so that you can get a feeling for the right people.

Interact People Computer Learn
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Alone Another Close Dance
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Success requires innovation, hard work, dedication and a bit of luck.

Success Innovation Hard work Dedication
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Approach every challenge as an opportunity because a negative person has never really created anything.

Approach Challenge Opportunity Negative person
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Also Beatles Because Began
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Armstrong Because Came Dad
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Grew Mark Mark Twain Reading
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Books Exercises Floor Get
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I never was a very good singer.
Good Never Singer Very
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

About Eight Playing Started
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Because Myself Piano Play
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Banjo Between Birthday Father
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