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"The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work."
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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that."

"Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist."

"Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian."

"I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band."

"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."

"The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't."
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