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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?
Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.
I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.
People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.
We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.
I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.
I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
If you focus on the flaws of others it takes away from the improvements that you may need to make.
It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.
I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.
Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession.
You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio