"When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening."
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"There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain."
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"At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one."
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"I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game."
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"The way I was singing the songs was jazz"
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"Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush... One more Moondance with you in the moonlight On a magic night"
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"Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me."
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"I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people."
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"I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression."
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"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."
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"Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about."
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"See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around."
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"I think intellectualization is what's killing most people."
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"Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best."
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"[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell."
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"Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are"
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"I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record."
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"Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones."
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"There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time."
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"[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing."
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