"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."

-- Sonny Rollins

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.”

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“Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.”
“I do hope to inspire, I mean I live off inspiration and its the force that keeps me working, that keeps me creating.”

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“You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”
“I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.”
“Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.”
“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
“When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.”

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