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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Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
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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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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
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I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
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Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum or whistle a melody if one hits me. Sometimes it's both simultaneously - lyric and melody at the same time - those are a little confusing to me, but sometimes it comes in that form. I just feel like I have my own little radio station and sometimes the static clears and something beams in from out there.
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
