The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try ...
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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
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The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a depression like I hadn’t experienced since that dust...
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I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
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First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our book...
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Antidepression medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug I’d been taking seemed to have stopped working. Th...
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Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when yo...
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I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leave...
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As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one th...
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As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
