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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things."
"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."
"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated."
"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
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