Albert Ayler Quotes
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
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All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.
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It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.
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Don't expect a great day; create one.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
