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"He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that."
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"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
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"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."
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"The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species."
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"I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music."
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