"If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music."

-- Billy Eckstine

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“Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.”
“Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.”
“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”
“It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.”
“Yoga calms me down. It gives me energy and focus.”
“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.”
“It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.”
“I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.”

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