"Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad."
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"If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com."
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"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle"
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"Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me."
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"I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him."
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"After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill."
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"Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become."
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"The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs."
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"I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed."
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"I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)"
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"It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing."
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"There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit"
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"She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon."
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"The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape."
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"I lost my one true love. I started drinking."
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"So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong."
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"Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features."
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"Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit."
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"Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive."
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"Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways."
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