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"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
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"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind."
"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man."
"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"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."
"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."
"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
"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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