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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Anything Burned Dancer Died
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

About Also Calling Central
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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So,one day a president will appoint his grandmother to an office with reference to the mockery of the Supreme Court ruling.

President Grandmother Office Mockery
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Because Before Beginning Born
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Always keep your eyes on the ball amidst all distractions!

Always Keep Your eyes Ball
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Any Anyway Because Great
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

About Always Each How
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Cool Dad Everybody Guitar
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Almost Around Began College
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Could Couple Enjoyed Face
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When someone shows you a photo on their phone, don’t swipe left or right. You never know what’s next.

Phone Never.Swipe Left Right
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Do not view every Tweet as an opportunity to argue/debate, even if does not conform to your views or belief.

Tweet Opportunity Argue Debate
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I’m not an employer but an enabler. I have no chains but a Light with which I deploy to brighten the path of those around me so they can uncover who they truly are in purpose.

Employer Enabler Light Purpose
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Enslaving Nigerians has never been so easy with branding. There's no struggle necessary they will enter the one chance with a smile.

Enslaving Nigerian Branding Struggles
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Never wear spiritualism as a badge to decorate your ego. You can choose to see in a society where it is profitable to be willfully blind.
Never Spiritualism Ego Decorate
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Break Does Doing Each
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Your spiritual journey is not much of a journey of discovery but of recovery. You are uncovering your own inner nature. It is already there. Don’t allow anyone sell to you what was stolen from your pocket.

Spiritual Journey Discovery Recovery
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The race most people have been tricked to run will always be void of fulfillment. We are part of nature and nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water, Trees don’t eat their own fruit & the sun doesn’t shine for itself. Living for each other is a rule.

The race Void Tricked Rivers
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We never learn until the bodies start piling.

Never Learn Bodies Piling
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It’s time to stop being part of the problem by speaking out about the culture of harmful practices and impunity that has led to needless murders. We are not merely showing discontent but addressing the need to change the reinforcement of this impunity & negligence.

Speaking Harmful Practices Murders
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

About Done Favorite Favorite Thing
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

Am Away Come Control
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Generation Make Much New
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Africa Also As Far As Birthday
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Banjo English English Language Heard
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My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Age Date Girl My Own
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

About Could Incredibly Insensitive
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

About Baseball Baseball Players Bring
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Call Dated English English People
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Class English English People Paradigm
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Big Big Fan British Fan
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Every Good He Painter
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Before Canvas Ever Hardly
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Alone Bread Creature Lives
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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Every successful person has a painful story and Every painful story has a successful ending, Accept the pain and get ready for success.

Every successful Painful story Ending
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Follow May lead Leave Trail
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Stay focused on the present and don’t worry about past or future. Do not let negative things from the past effect your present-day happiness. Whatever occurred in the past cannot be altered and you should let it go and move on.

Stay focused Worry Future Negative things
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Day Each Harvest Judge
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friend Gift Give You
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