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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I've been talking to a lot of hitters in this league, and they say it's hard to face me because I look scary out there.
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I love pop music. Who doesn't?
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I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.
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There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.
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I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.
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Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.
