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Quotes by Musician
"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too."
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"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you."
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"The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so."
Fans,
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"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
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"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
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"I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me."
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"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."
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"Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her."
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"Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors."
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"But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin."
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"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
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"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
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"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."
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"I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once."
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"We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation."
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"I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings."
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"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy."
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"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school."
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"Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst."
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"In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious."
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"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
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"I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American."
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"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."
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"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
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"I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn."
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"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
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