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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."
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"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."
"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."
"As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me."
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."
"I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years."
"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
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