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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."

"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."

"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."

"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."

"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."

"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."

"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."

"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
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"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."
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