Gary Burton Quotes
I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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I'm thinking when I meet the right person - and I do believe that I will - he's going to be younger. Not cougar territory, though. I won't go out with someone who could be my son!
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.
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When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
