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"I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more."
God

"When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues."
Change

"But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation."
Occupation

"I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?"
God

"But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money."
Men

"I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint."
Idea

"I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize."
People

"I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't."
Time

"I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength."
Strength

"Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked."
Time
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."
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"We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do."
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"As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet."
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"Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody."
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"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."
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"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."
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"I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility."
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"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."
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"I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority."
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