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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."

"You can be your own boss."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

"Only God's principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free."
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"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."

"In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach."

"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."

"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."

"That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing."

"I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste."
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