Keith Jarrett Quotes
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I'm too tasteful for my pants.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.
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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
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I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.
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Then he saw his ghosts glitter with golden hands,the Emperor sliding up and up from his tombalongside Charles. These things are not obliterate.White gobs spitten for mockery;and I too shall have CY GIST, written over me.
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My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Adults are only kids grown up.
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At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.
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We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
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I think there's an assumption when you have a parent in the business that you're given some kind of a cheat sheet at an early age. Some kind of upper hand or some kind of advanced understanding of how the whole thing functions - maybe how to operate within it. I never felt I received that cheat sheet and grew up pretty removed from the business.
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
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We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.
