"Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied"
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"You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see."
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"You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream."
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"No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden."
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"Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it."
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"The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden"
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"Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do."
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"It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach."
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"There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me."
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"Going down the old mine with a transistor radio."
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"I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip."
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"When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it."
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"Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son."
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"Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction."
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"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
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"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
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"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
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"Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me."
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"Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?"
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