"Those who will not dance will have to be shot"
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"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
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"At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something"
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"Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music."
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"With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures."
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"Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer"
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"In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there."
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"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
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"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated."
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"I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people."
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"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
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"The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die."
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"Music is a language, a universal language."
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"It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion."
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"Music is not material. Music is Spiritual."
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"Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me."
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"I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power."
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"I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician."
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"Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom."
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"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."
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