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"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
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"Country music belongs to America."
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"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."
Music
"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."
War
"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."
Holiday
"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."
Men
"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."
People
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."
Saying
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."
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