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Business is the systematic playing of games.
Business Games Playing Systematic
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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Any Blues Form Guitar
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I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Hamlet Play Aspired Funny
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

Creeps Definitely Expand Know
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
About Character Me Playing
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Ground Eyes Eternal Wheels
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

About Affinity Am Characters
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My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

Always Behind Brothers Had
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My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Always Change Changes Everything
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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Anyway Communicate Communication Form
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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Anyone Criticized Else Increase
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Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

Because Better Great Just
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I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

About Always Being Even
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When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

Audience Feel Follow Going
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Charlie Charlie Parker Create Fine
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I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Golf Great Great Thing Just
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

Apparently Brazil Bunch Company
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I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Fast ICan Kids Kitchen
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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Anyway Communicate Communication Form
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I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

About Ahead Always Anticipate
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I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Body Enough Express Feels
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I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

Accolades Approval Fine How
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I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

Always Appreciative Been High
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I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

Am Arrested Because Clearly
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Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Any Beauty Being Both
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.

Articulate Even Family Friends
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Destiny will not appear on your doorstep and introduce herself. While there is spiritual dynamics to destiny, it is not solely spiritual. You have to be engaged in the process. God definitely plays a role, but so must you.

Destiny Introduce Spiritual dynamics
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory

Braille Damn Develop Ear
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

Bit Came Come Dallas
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

Big Box Fast Football
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

Act Being Cover Dylan
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.

Afterwards Bar Because Cash
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I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.

Able Achieve Been Before
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Car Cliff Drives Like
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Love Plays Power Revolution
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Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Eighteen Feeling Get God
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Ball Ball Player Dad He
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My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

All-Star Ball Fifth First
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I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Level Money Other Played
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For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Another Another Man Beating Finger
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

About Because Close Educated
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When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Crap Doubt Good Level
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All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

Always Archery Back Black
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To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Master New New Technology Play
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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Practice Teach Trumpet Play
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

End Geared Only Play
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Play Short Stories Write
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