"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

Acceptance, Open, Public, Talking

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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

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"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

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"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."

"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."

"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."

"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."

"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."

"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."

"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."

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"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."

"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."

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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"

"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."

"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."