I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIAI read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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