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"I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing."
"I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock."
"It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive."
"I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks."
"It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)"
"Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now."
"What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world."
"Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks."
"The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics."
"You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics."
"I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels."
"I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do."
"To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic."
