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"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."

"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."

"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."

"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."

"The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers."

"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."

"I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that."
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"I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything."

"Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does."

"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."

"A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on."

"I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel."

"Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that."

"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it."
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