Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
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I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.
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We could be playing anybody the first game. We'd still have a sour taste in our mouths.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
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I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.
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Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.
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When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
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By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.
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When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
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Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity...
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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
