Gerry Beckley Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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I don't have any skeletons in my closet.
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It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
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Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.
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Now that everybody shows up these days their own little metal tubes covered with buttons and lights, and filled whatever special blend they’ve cooked up, pot is more like a designer drug than the sacrament it was in my day.
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If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.
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One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.
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We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.
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Life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
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Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.
