Gerry Mulligan Quotes
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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The art of love is who you share it with.
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My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.
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Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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To negotiate is not to do as one likes.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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How now, wit! Whither wander you?
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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.