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• I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.

  Count Basie

  Sound, Different, Stylist

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• You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.

  Wes Montgomery

  Inspiration, Cat, Thinking

  Downbeat magazine Interview, 1961.

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• I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Ducks, Knees, Jazz

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• I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

  Maya Angelou

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
  Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
  Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails,
  Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
  Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew,
  From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

  Alfred the Great

  Rain, Twilight, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 123 (1842)

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• I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

  Lord Kelvin

  Future, Expectations, Molecules

  "The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, (p. 236), 1984.

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• I heard the spring light whisper
  Above the dancing stream,
  The world is made forever
  in likeness of a dream.

  Bliss Carman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that, if God gave me back my life to be lived over again, I would without one quiver of hesitation lay it on the altar to Christ, that He might use it as before in similar ministries of love, especially amongst those who have never yet heard the Name of Jesus.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Son, Might Use

  "John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides".

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• I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

  John Entwistle

  Play, Band, Very Happy

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• Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

  Donatella Versace

  Sleep, Night, Havens

  "Donatella Versace: 'How do I keep young? I sleep every night in the freezer!'" by Lisa Armstrong, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2012.

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• We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience we must: anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Memories, Grief, Acceptance

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• The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in government, then the government itself must allow the minority to be heard.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Government, Practice, Democracy

  Interview with Rami Eljundi, World Internet News, April 26, 2006.

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Cities

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• The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.

  Archie Manning

  Jobs, Thinking, New Orleans

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• Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Hoping For Something, Fame

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• Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

  Levon Helm

  Pain, Greatness, Voice

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• I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

  Gary Burton

  Artist, Player, Guitar

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• Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.

  Bill Mollison

  Layers, Fuzzy, Boundaries

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door.

  Bill Crawford

  Light, Doors, Darkness

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• I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  Haile Selassie

  Mistake, Men, Ideas

  "Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind" by Jawara D. King, (p. 295), 2009.

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• I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, Careers, Voice

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• The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Singing, Apollo, Firsts

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• I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Believe, Issues, People

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• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

  C. S. Forester

  Desire, Together, Ends

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