"And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands."
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"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."
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"If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from."
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".. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways"
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"The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around."
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."
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"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed."
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"My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus."
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"The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage."
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"One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten."
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"People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it."
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"Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field."
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"Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards."
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"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."
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"Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts."
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"Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God."
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"Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind."
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"My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom."
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"Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear."
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"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
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