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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
I've crashed my car three times.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.
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