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God don't like complaints.
Rick Danko / Musician
God
Complaints
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He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.
Rick Danko / Musician
Goal
Ifs
Thinker
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I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.
Rick Danko / Musician
Ink
Recycling
Soybeans
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Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.
Rick Danko / Musician
Greenpeace
Portions
Directly
Portion
Sales
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Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.
Rick Danko / Musician
Band
Together
Paul
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When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.
Rick Danko / Musician
Changing The World
Vision
World
Younger
Visions
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I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
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My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.
Rick Danko / Musician
Dolphins
Firsts
Payback
Dolphin
Project
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.
Rick Danko / Musician
Technology
Cds
Waste
Cd
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I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
Rick Danko / Musician
Bass
Bass Players
Player
Tubas
Tuba
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The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.
Rick Danko / Musician
Good Together Doing
Dates
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When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
Rick Danko / Musician
Nightclubs
Oldies
People
Play
Relate
Used
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I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
Rick Danko / Musician
Lost Love
Play
Safe
Love Me Lost
Safe Place
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After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
Rick Danko / Musician
Convincing
Helping
Neighborhood
Should
Thinking
Life Myself Your
Later
Least
Maybe
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I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.
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Straightened
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You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
Rick Danko / Musician
Sad
Performing
Sight
Singing
Song
Tape
Anymore
Sing
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You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.
Rick Danko / Musician
Every Night
Nightclubs
Rut
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The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
Rick Danko / Musician
Play
Retirement
Together
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The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
Rick Danko / Musician
Famous
Band
Cash
Petty
Pockets
Time Always Together
Time Famous Always
Fill
Till
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When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!
Rick Danko / Musician
Kids
Canada
Cleaning
Growing Up
Lakes
Lifetime
Ontario
Erie
Lake
Polluted
Turned
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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko / Musician
Dream
American Dream
Apples
Cutting
Greed
Pie
Selfishness
Apple
Barrel
Closer
Prevent
Shared
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Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
Rick Danko / Musician
Alive
Fortunate
Getting Older
Mind
Silly
Life Mind Me
Allowed
Budget
Conjure
Older
Little Thing
Realize
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The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.
Rick Danko / Musician
Complaining
Mean
Thinking
Complain
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By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
Rick Danko / Musician
Inspirational
Positive
Better Place
Changing The World
Helping
Helping People
People
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Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
Rick Danko / Musician
Greenpeace
Gun
Hunting
Remember
Whales
Boats
Guns
Guys
Spear
Waters
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I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
Rick Danko / Musician
Detroit
Miles
Motown
Records
Way
Chance Always Me
Chance Me Way
Entertain
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I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
Rick Danko / Musician
New Year
Dover
Following
Hometown
Night
Ontario
Opening
Port
Spring
Years
Myself Me Night
Booked
Eve
Hawkins
Hired
Near
Opening Act
Ronnie
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Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
Rick Danko / Musician
Uncles
Artist
Country
Five
Nashville
Six
Toronto
Western
Artists
Singer
Lefty
Met
Uncle
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Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.
Rick Danko / Musician
Dream
Opportunity
Land
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