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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam...
GARY BURTON
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi...
GARY BURTON
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved....
DAN BURTON
One religion is as true as another.
ROBERT BURTON
There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th...
BURTON CUMMINGS
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead t...
ROBERT BURTON
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
ROBERT BURTON
I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
ROBERT BURTON
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON
Out of too much learning become mad.
ROBERT BURTON
Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
ROBERT BURTON
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
ROBERT BURTON
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
ROBERT BURTON
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
ROBERT BURTON
The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON
They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON
The devil is the author of confusion.
ROBERT BURTON
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON
A mere scholar, a mere ass.
ROBERT BURTON
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
ROBERT BURTON
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold,...
ROBERT BURTON
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON