"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."

Animals, Being, Needs, Spirit

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"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

Paul Valery, French Poet

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

Kent McCord, American Actor

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"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically."

Time

"Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement."

Change

"I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found."

Truth

"Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic."

Music

"I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice."

Frontline

"I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over."

Music

"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."

Guitar

"The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together."

Time

"When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film."

Music