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Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

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Fried ice cream is a reality!

George Clinton

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Honesty is hardly ever heard, but mostly what I need from you...

Billy Joel

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Love is an angel disguised as lust...

Patti Smith

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Please don't dominate the rap, Jack, if you got nothing new to say.

Robert Hunter

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Shower the people you love with love.

James Taylor

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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), Musician, the Greatful Dead
Rolling Stone magazine, (November 30, 1989).

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When the critics try to analyze the current trend, I just sit back and watch them come and go.

Joe Walsh

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We've turned a lot of people into fucking nuts by allowing them to misinterpret the words "feed your head." "Feed your head" doesn't mean taking every fucking drug that comes along. "Feed your head" means "read."

Grace Slick

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Greil Marcus, I think it was, who said, "Biggest waste of one of the finest voices of the twentieth century. ... " or something like that. When I read that, I felt, "Geez, he's absolutely right." 'Cause I was making some horrible records. I'd bastardize my art. I'd made records like "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Love Touch." Nothing more than just horrible pop songs.

Rod Stewart

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