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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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"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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"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."
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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
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"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."
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"The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else."
Potential
"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing."
Music
"Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way."
Time
"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
Musicians
"If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient."
Music
"There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there."
History
"There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies."
Work
"I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could."
Business
"It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there."
Music
"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views."
Business
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