"We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them."
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"Wise it is to comprehend the whole."
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"Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time."
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"I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music."
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"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."
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"This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story."
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"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."
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"When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention."
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"Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan."
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"It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last."
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"Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time."
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"It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you."
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"You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away."
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"As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift."
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"Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen."
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"I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians."
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"I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can."
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"Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done."
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"Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids."
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"I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly."
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