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"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."
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"The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug."
Love

"The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell."
Time

"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."
Music

"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."
Men

"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."
Sound

"It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing."
People

"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."
People

"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."
Guitar

"I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!"
Guitar

"Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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