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.
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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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Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.
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You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
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When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.
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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.
