Chick Corea Quotes
It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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Say yes to everything.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.
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It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.
