We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
PAUL SIMONAll God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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