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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

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Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to…

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Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

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The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him…

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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

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The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

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Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour…

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When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

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