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"There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

"As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right."

"Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at."

"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."

"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."

"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
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