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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.
