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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Don't go backwards - you've already been there.
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.
Where are your balls at?
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years. ) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.