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"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated."

"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."

"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
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