Gary Wright Quotes
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Greatness in art is always a by-product.
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I don't think I'm a particularly good negotiator.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
