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Layne Staley

"It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today."

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"It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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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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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

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"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

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"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."
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"We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that."
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"I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more."
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