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"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."
Brother
"I see people as they really are from a pure point of view."
People
"Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society."
Music
"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
Truth
"All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things."
Nation
"Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me."
People
"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated."
Man
"People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country."
People
"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
Money
"Music is a language, you see, a universal language."
Music
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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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