Eddie Harris Quotes
Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.
Quotes to Explore
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
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Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
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Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
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Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.
