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"Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know."
"I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him."
"Faces can lie. Backsides can't."
"I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there."
"I never thought I would go into the dance charts."
"I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it."
"IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread # PEACE ."
"Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it."
"Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow."
"It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black."
"We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together."
"We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish."
"In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory."
"My life was pretty rough."
"Art for me is like breathing."
"Love is what I give to the one I love."
"Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies."
"The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it."
"When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear"
"Art is a way of survival."