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David Baker

"In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

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"No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions."
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"I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done."
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