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"There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing."
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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
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"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."

"I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one."

"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

"The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong."

"There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here."

"Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country."

"We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it."
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