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Quotes by Musician
"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
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"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it."
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"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
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"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one."
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"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
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"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
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"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure."
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"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
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"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."
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"We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat."
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"So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours."
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"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
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"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
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"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."
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"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good."
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"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
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"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
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"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
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"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."
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"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."
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"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."
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"About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting."
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"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
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"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
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"I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work."
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