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One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Reason Bird Impress Other
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If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive
Want Gather Honey Kick
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Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.

Always Say Known Listen
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Rest Eternally Course Absurd
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

Worse Call Crazy Dismissive
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching

True Hard Thing Yourself
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If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself.

Lose People Right Around
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I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Support Question Extent Right
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The only way you can know where the line is is if you cross it.

Cross Way Know Line
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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

World Figure Worse Better
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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Stage Happy Time Adult
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there on stage when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

People Wall Stand Stage
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Everyone around me says, “You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.

Around Genius Great Voice
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Cool Long Around Love
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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Comedy Teacher Salary Doing
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My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

Answer Wife Anything Comedian
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I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Always Become Relationship Leave
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Admire Bright Intelligent Life
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Boring Going Here Know
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Any Art Between Boundaries
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Band Behind Dad Get
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
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I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

Believe Best Bring Often
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

After Amazes Analyze Intelligent
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Arriving Course Departing Journey
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Along Always Been Chords
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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Apart Big Important Instance
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence Absolute Challenging Confront
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I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Being Come Composer Effort
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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

Because Best Doing Else
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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Always Art Been Change
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Agent Awe Behind Believe
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Most Create Act Ever
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
Love Need Reason Heart
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.

Forever Suffocate Breath Holding
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If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Return Grow Get Fear
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I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

Life Subject Awareness Body
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