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Clarinetist Inspirational Quotes (880)

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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
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I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.
John Zorn
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw
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We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
Benny Goodman
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Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.
Dewey Redman
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My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.
Woody Allen
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You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.
Woody Allen
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We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.
Woody Allen
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This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?
Woody Allen
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I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
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There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.
Woody Allen
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It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.
Woody Allen
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While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.
Woody Allen
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen
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I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.
Woody Allen
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And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
Woody Allen
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The heart wants what it wants.
Woody Allen
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How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not the thing with feathers. The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.
Woody Allen
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What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.
Woody Allen
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The wicked at heart probably know something.
Woody Allen
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The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
Woody Allen
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I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot
Woody Allen
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Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
Woody Allen
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