Brad Mehldau Quotes
The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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I was a really big kid.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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I'm too much of a big kid.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
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The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.