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"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."

"If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore."

"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."

"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."

"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value."

"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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"I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed."

"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way."

"There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen."

"I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished."

"Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs."

"There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled."

"I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is."

"The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to."

"Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work."
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