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"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record."

"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."

"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"

"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."

"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"
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