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"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
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"Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can."

"A gentle and a sweet, innocent soul can come from any place, any background. It is the nature of the soul and it cannot really change on the inside. A soul like this may come to believe the tauntings of the circumstances in life, and of the people who created those circumstances, with only memories of the true reflection of who it (the soul) really is. The downfall begins when a beautiful soul starts to believe that it is not beautiful."

"If you say, 'Now I look like an old man', you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 'No, I look like a young man now', you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 'Real form of the Self' (mood swaroop)."

"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
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"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."

"What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man."

"My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching."

"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."

"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.""

"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."

"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
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