"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play."

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Source : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

Herb Alpert

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“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”
“I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passÃ©," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.”

Source : "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.
“'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.”
“I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.”
“Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1973). “Books in My Baggage: Adventures in Reading and Collecting”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.”
“We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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