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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
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"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."

"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory."

"The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying."

"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."

"Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything."
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