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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
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"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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