"To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out."

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Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

Allen Toussaint

#Play Quotes #Band Quotes #Chords Quotes

“If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”
“I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.”
“It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.”
“Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.”
“Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.”
“One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.”
“You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.”

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