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"My first album came out in 1979."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."
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"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
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"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that."
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"I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know."
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"My first album came out in 1979."
First
"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."
Soul
"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."
Guitar
"They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control."
Music
"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano."
Music
"I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do."
Imagination
"There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him."
Music
"OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?"
Truth
"I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother."
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