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My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.
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People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
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There is a fine line between insanity and genius.
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The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
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Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
