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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

"And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."

"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."

"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there."
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