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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."

"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."

"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."
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"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."

"How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained."

"To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth."

"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."

"Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear."

"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."

"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."
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