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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
— Leonard Cohen
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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.…
— Willie Nelson
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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early…
— Tom Morello
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About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
— Freddie Mercury
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You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
— Joe Perry
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with:…
— Angus Young
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Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
— Woody Guthrie
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I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help…
— Ray Davies
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I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore.…
— Sondre Lerche
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
— Harlan Howard
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Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
— Willie Nelson
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