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"That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played."
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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."
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"No secrecy, no business."
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"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."
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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
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"Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment."
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"Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty."
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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
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"A business is an army; you are the general, and your subordinates are your troops. Victory is achieving your goals. Great victory is surpassing your goals."
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"The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs."
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"Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country."
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"It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before."
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"Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me."
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"Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what."
Money
"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."
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"When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid."
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"Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves."
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"We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it."
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"Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?"
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