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"Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'"
"Things always seem to end before they start"
"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."
"Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?"
"I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother."
"Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright."
"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"
"Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy."
"I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future."
"But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao."
"Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle."
"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime."
"I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good."
"Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating."
"All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics."
"I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming."
"That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say."
"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."
"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."
"An eye for an eye is elemental."