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Levon Helm

"I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades."

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"I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades."

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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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"There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play."
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"You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it."
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