"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."

Nature, People, Poets, Workers

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"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

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"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."

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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

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"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."

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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

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