Gary Burton Quotes
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I am not too intelligent.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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There is a need for closeness, yet we can't get too close. The teacher-pupil relationship is a kind of tightrope to be walked. I know how carefully I must choose a word, a gesture. I understand the delicate balance between friendliness and familiarity, dignity and aloofness. I am especially aware of this in trying to reclaim Ferone. I don't know why it's so important to me. Perhaps because he, too, is a rebel. Perhaps because he's been so damaged. He's too bright and too troubled to be lost in the shuffle.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
