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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
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"My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent."
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"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
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"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
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"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
Ideas
"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
People
"Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else."
Work
"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans."
Fans
"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."
Content
"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."
Politics
"I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history."
History
"So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time."
Love
"My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing."
Class
"I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return."
War
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