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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."

"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."

"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band."

"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."

"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."

"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."

"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day."

"Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day."
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