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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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"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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"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination
"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
Love
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
Life
"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
School
"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
Being
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
Music
"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
Music
"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
Job
"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
Jazz
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