"I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs."
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"Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun"
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"History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again."
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"Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth."
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"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death."
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"The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology."
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"When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song."
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"All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson."
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"Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull."
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"And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips."
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"The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played."
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"There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy."
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"I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day."
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"There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences, but they're great experiences 'cause then I've got some good songs so it's all good for me."
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"If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs."
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"Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand."
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"Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed."
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"When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs."
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"If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon."
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"Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality."
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