"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie."

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"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Ken Kesey, American Author

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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

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"Lying can never save us from another lie."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Adolf Hitler, German Criminal

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"I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused."

Now

"You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights."

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"And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it."

Love

"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."

Music

"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

Past

"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."

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"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."

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"And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music."

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"Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends."

Time