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• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
• I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try…
• All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects…
• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
• That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music…
• We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've…
• I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes…
• I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're…
• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat…
• Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.
• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the…
• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with…

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