"You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings."

-- Billy Eckstine

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“I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.”
“While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.”

Source : Charles J. Givens (1995). “More Wealth Without Risk”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.”

Source : "Gotye Braces For Stateside Success With 'Somebody That I Used To Know'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. February 9, 2012.
“I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.”
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
“I love seeing tennis up close.”
“But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.”

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