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"Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
Being
"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
Money
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
Love
"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
Music
"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid."
Education
"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
First
"There is nothing so stable as change."
Change
"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
Life
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
Music
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