"I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background."

-- Rickie Lee Jones

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“It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.”
“The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'”
“Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.”
“You know how your charger for your phone? It's like if you had a charger for your whole body and mind”
“Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.”
“What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.”
“Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.”

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