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“Everyone wants to blast their music, to impose their voice and opinion, to make noise that is loud enough to cover every other voice around them. I wondered what would happen if we truly gave each other a chance and listened carefully to the tunes played by the fancy or broken instruments of each lonely soul around us?”

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“I am a trained classical pianist. I can play all the masters. I can improvise on the piano, as well as play a variety of styles of music. Yet, I cannot build a piano. Is it necessary for me to know how to build a piano to be a good musician?”

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“I demand wisdom from my fingers: at least they must sound human, and not like spoons and forks! The piano, however, is not a human being. It lies halfway between a friend and a rock. More responsive than a rock. More predictable than a friend.”

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Book:Figure It Out

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“What I found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself.”

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Book:Life

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“Yes. One of the greatest composers once said that music is a dialog between the musician and God. But God answers very rarely, and only to the truly gifted ones, to those who bear his kiss.”

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Book:Rhapsody in Dreams

Source: Rhapsody in Dreams

“Stop blaming yourself, your parents, porn, or other people. Your struggles are partly your fault, partly the fault of others—and, paradoxically, no one’s fault at all.”

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Book:20 Years Of Inner War: How porn defeated my porn addiction

Source: 20 Years Of Inner War: How porn defeated my porn addiction

“Meditation coupled with music are the best cures for human misery.”

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“The unpolished rawness and uncompromising energy of hip-hop have their roots in slavery. Just like some of the sweetest forms of expression the human race has ever invented, like jazz and blues. They were born out of misery but were so infectiously captivating and full of such bold emotions that they permeated everything else -- contemporary music, fashion, art, the way people talk, the way people walk, the way people are.”

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Book:A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir

Source: A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir

“Life is all about who owes who what. It is a world of debts. If Joe does me a favor, I owe Joe. If I overpay the favor to Joe, then Joe owes me a bit more. It goes on this way until the debt owed feels equal to both parties. But only then. Do you see what I am telling you?”

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Book:Knock on Wood

Source: Knock on Wood

“I’m building a castle of soundtracks. I Created 470 soundtracks, So that one day I’ll tell the ones I care for, I fought for my rights to dream and making them come true”

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