Andrew S. Gilbert Quotes
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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Publishing is not my world.
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The fans always tell me im beautiful but I always tell them that no one will ever be as beautiful as them
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I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.
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Not valuing wealth prevents theft.
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It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.
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When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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I'm not a great singer.
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Rich people know how to party, too.
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.
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I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.
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Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day....Never surrender.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.
