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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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"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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"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."
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"And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around."
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"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
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"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
Art
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
Education
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
Art
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Power
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
Ability
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Education
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work
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