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"We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy."
"Music is the emotional life of the most people."
"The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found."
"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."
"Everybody knows the dice are loaded."
"I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far."
"In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!"
"As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder."
"I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light."
"Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process."
"The big change is the proximity to death."
"Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those."
"He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."
"I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song..."
"Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate"
"Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'."
"Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies."
"The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say"
"Ring the bells that still can ring."
"The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule"