"To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?"
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"There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable."
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"A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair."
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"So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind."
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"I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good..."
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"The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead."
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"Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for."
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"There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from."
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".. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players"
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"Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things."
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"Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen."
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"A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about."
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"Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free."
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"I found myself in too much of a box situation."
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"Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties."
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"Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you."
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"Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts."
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"Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again."
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"We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking."
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"If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will."
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