Michael Masser Quotes
I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
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We live because of the dreams.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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I'm running because we need change.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
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We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.
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Science changes, and it's odd to me that scientists say, 'Never be skeptical,' because it was in the mid-'70s when they were saying we're sunk because we're going to have global climate cooling.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
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I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
