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"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."
"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
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