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"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."

"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."

"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."

"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect."

"We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world."

"You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me."

"Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet."

"Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band."

"But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously."

"We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill."

"In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah."

"It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people."

"We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me."
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