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Richard Thompson

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

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"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

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"Character- building education is what the world needs " education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"

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"Don't be too scared to calculate risks."

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"Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it."

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"You must refuse to succumb to every ungodliness and injustice."

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"If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone."

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"It is better to dare than fear."

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"A lion is only dangerous if it has teeth."

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"I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave."

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"When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks."

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
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"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
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"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."
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"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
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"It's amazing what some people read into songs."
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