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"I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me."

"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."
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"The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go."
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"Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath."
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"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity."

"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."
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"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything."

"Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food."

"If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength."

"There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently."

"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."

"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."

"We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design."

"The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens."
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