” You can’t be afraid of failure and you can’t be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. “
” When you’re working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. “
” There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren’t personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. “
” If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. “
” If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn’t count. “
” Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It’s a wonderful song. “
” I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We’re putting things together. “
” Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. “
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