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"I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor."
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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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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 is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"In my view a jazz musician is a great musician."
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"There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument."
Music
"I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor."
Music
"Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy."
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"I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses."
People
"Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album."
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"Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life."
Life
"In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice."
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"It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore."
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"I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music."
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"It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of."
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