Chris Botti Quotes
There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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My education was very tough.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I've been traveling more and feel like I've figured out a comfortable way to do it. The biggest shift is that I spend my traveling time 'in the moment,' I don't over-schedule when I'm somewhere and instead focus on longer time with less people. I also give myself plenty of me time on the road.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It's a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that.
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The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.
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There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
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There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.
