"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth."
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"The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence..."
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"I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy."
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"Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence."
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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."
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"Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers."
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"I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like."
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"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality."
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"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
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"If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting."
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"[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
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"The piano has been drinking, not me."
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"Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own."
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"Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place."
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"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."
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"You cannot hear music and noise at the same time."
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"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
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"We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at."
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"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think."
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"I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair."
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