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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#alive #am #brain #century #doing

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#grew #household #i #live #live music

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. ↗

— David Viscott

#live #more #old #think #year

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ↗

— David Viscott

#diversions #empty #entertaining #fill #life

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#classical #cream #crop #did #extensive

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#arrived #because #before #europe #extremely

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#because #break #come #coming #father

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#alone #body #brain #dream #every

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#before #cry #dark #eyes #hands