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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Beat
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Nov 07, 2020

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Fine
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Nov 07, 2020

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Everything
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Nov 07, 2020

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

Nov 07, 2020

I'm a humanist.

Keep Going
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Nov 07, 2020

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Chance
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Nov 07, 2020

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Opera
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Nov 07, 2020

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

Play
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Nov 07, 2020

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

My Own
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Nov 07, 2020

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Beat
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Nov 07, 2020

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

Become
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Nov 07, 2020

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Coleman
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Anything
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Nov 07, 2020

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Nov 07, 2020

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

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