"The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs."
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"People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it."
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"You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down"
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"I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band."
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"People do whatever they want to do, y'know."
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"Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it."
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"People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards."
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"All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives."
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"Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way."
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"Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food."
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"All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?"
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"We JAH people can make it work."
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"People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working."
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"I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in."
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"Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all the time. They just don't care about them when they meet them, at the gas station, the car wash, the post office even."
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"I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change."
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"I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation."
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"Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously."
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"I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age."
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"I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed."
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