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"I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?"
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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
"What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone's worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has."
"The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!"
"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that 'ours' is correct; nor do 'we' have the time to make you correct as well."
"The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!"
"It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty."
"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
"If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven."
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"I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles."
"Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No."
"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."
"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing."
"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."
"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."
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