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"Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible."
May,
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"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
May,

"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

"Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy."
May,

"When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd."

"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,
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"But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War."


"Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible."


"I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer."


"I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed."


"I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener."


"Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time."


"Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition."


"It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that."
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