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"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."
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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"I'm an American before any party preference."
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"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
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"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy."
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"The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male."
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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis 'cause I've always liked him, his shows. I've sort of followed his career a bit 'cause he had a lot of that on PBS over here."
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"I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line."
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"It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together."
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"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
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"I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily."
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"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."
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"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
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"No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry."
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"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better."
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"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
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