"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"
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"Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody."
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"Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway."
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"I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time."
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
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"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow."
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"Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it."
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"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
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"But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play."
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"All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama."
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"I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence."
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"The earth has music for those who listen."
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"But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play."
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"I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat."
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"I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested."
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"Wagner’s music is better than it sounds."
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"I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan."
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"There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"In improvisation, there are no mistakes."
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