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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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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."
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"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."
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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."
Wisdom
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
Act
"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."
Anxiety
"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."
Parenting
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
Writing
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
Poetry
"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
Satire
"What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd."
Anger
"To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man."
Humanity
"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."
Mortality
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