- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
- Heavy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020