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"Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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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."
"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."
"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."
"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."
"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."
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
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