"If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord."

-- Pat Metheny

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“Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.”

Source : "Life Is Difficult But Rewarding Under This 'Umbrella'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2013.
“It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.”
“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”
“Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.”
“You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.”
“When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.”
“I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United era, are going to fight tooth and nail against a reinvigorated War on Poverty. But I also think that the elections of 2012 showed the limits of big money in politics, and the willingness of a majority of voters to really think these issues through for themselves.”
“We are not very good at this. Our success rests on our international experience and on our ability to read the market. And I contest the notion that you can only succeed in China when you are well-connected. Neither my husband nor I are "princelings" - children of influential people, that is. And yet China has enabled us to succeed.”

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