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"I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock."
Time
"I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it."
Music
"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
Guitar
"I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people."
People
"I always felt people should live with animals."
People
"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that."
Music
"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."
Love
"When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards."
People
"Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt."
Time
"My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge."
Philosophy
Exlpore more Drugs quotes
"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
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"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
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"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
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"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"
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"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
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"I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit."
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"I'm very fond of drugs."
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