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"I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests."
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"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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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."
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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."
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"I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests."
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"I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame."
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"Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody."
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"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
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"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
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"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out."
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"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."
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"My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is."
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"If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history."
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