Lester Bowie Quotes
Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
