"I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow."
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"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of."
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"The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine."
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"My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it."
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"Every wave is new until it breaks."
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"And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold."
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"There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters."
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"As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none."
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"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
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"I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say."
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"I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates."
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"Keep it moving. Don't hoard. Money's no good, get rid of it. Turn it into people doing things. Turn it into jobs. Turn it into happiness...The more people I employ, the happier I am - that means my money's goin' into other people's lives, and if I can give 'em something to create that they can be happy with, that's great."
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"The thing about my music is, there really is no point."
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"I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it."
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"I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature."
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"This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down."
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"Think I'll roll another number for the road"
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance"
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"I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio."
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