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Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing…
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that…
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that…
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should…
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have…
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts.…
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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down…
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I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind…
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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
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Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the…
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An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…
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I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.
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He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce…
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I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life…
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It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first…
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Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked.…
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Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's…
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If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who…
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