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Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages... read more
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“I will never throw a book away, storing dog-eared paperbacks from school or college, year after year, stacked like hunting trophies on makeshift shelves in my rooms. For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at that time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.”
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For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at that time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur,
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I want to do this on my own terms, I want to be singular, and if that means being marginalized, then so be it. I will become stronger, and even if no one else knows who I am, I shall know myself.
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I realized from these experiments that anything, no matter how complex, could be deconstructed and learned if you slowed it down enough to really hear it.
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love is never wasted. Love can be denied or ignored, or even perverted, but it does not disappear, it merely takes another form, until we are consciously ready to accept its mystery and its power.
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I’ve often thought that playing a musical instrument is an obsessive-compulsive disorder or a symptom of being socially inept, but I can’t decide whether playing an instrument makes you socially inept, or you’re a sociopath to begin with and you play an instrument as some sort of consolation.
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There is a terrible sadness in a kind gift that is unappreciated, unwanted, and misunderstood.
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I begin to fantasize that I will no longer seek my father’s attention, and yet a lot of my life has been nothing but a vain attempt to find approval, to find acceptance.
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William Blake said that “a man who persists in his folly will become wise,”
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If we had been more experienced, we would have realized that versatility is not something the record industry values at all. What they are looking for is something singular and fresh. We don’t yet understand that versatility is a premium for nightclub bands and journeyman musicians, not pop acts.
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It still seems fantastic to me that something as private as a song can become public property, but maybe all it takes is just one person to believe in what you are doing to give you the confidence to keep trying.)
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It is a winter's night in Rio de Janiero, 1987.
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Page Count: 352
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