"Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air."
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"Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me."
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"There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there."
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"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness."
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"You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you."
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"You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot."
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"I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears."
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"It seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off."
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"It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang."
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"Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built."
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"Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me."
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"Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way."
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"If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too."
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"I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out."
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"I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else."
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"I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites."
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"I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'"
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"I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing."
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"Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies."
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"I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor.""
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