"Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script."
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".. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways"
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"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland."
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"I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it."
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"It all has to come from inside, though, I guess."
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"It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now."
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"See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues."
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"I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage."
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"The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around."
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"Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?"
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"Never write a letter while you are angry."
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"Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain."
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"When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together."
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"Fall mountains, just don't fall on me."
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"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears."
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"It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic."
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"You got your God and so do I."
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"Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over."
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"In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it."
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"Once you're dead, you're made for life."
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