"I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that."

-- Charlie Byrd

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“I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.”
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
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“If we are in tune with the Spirit, if we are seeking the Lord and His guidance, if our direction is to return to our Father in Heaven, the sweet moments will come. And we will treasure them, for we have become instruments in the hands of God”
“There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.”

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