"I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress."

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Source : "Star-spangled Promenader". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2001.

Leonard Slatkin

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“It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.”

Source : "Fictional character: Huey Walker". "Flashback", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.”

Source : "The End Of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes The Scientific Method Obsolete" by Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 23, 2008.
“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”

Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”
“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'”
“I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.”
“Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.”
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

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