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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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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!"
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"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice."
Music
"To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special."
People
"One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em."
Obstacles
"As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in."
Life
"That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us."
Experience
"I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going."
Saying
"Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments."
Musicians
"After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time."
Time
"Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance."
Music
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