"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.“

-Bobby McFerrin

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"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."

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"If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful."

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"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."

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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

-Marilyn Monroe

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

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