Donald Fagen Quotes
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of 'Vogue' before I knew it.
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I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.
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People abusing their power makes me see red.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
