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"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."


"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."


"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."
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