Bix Beiderbecke Quotes
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
