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„Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.“
„I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up — a sincere one — is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.“
„The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.“
„I think it’s really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It’s such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what’s the story here? Being alive is so weird.“
„You know, people are basically shitty. It’s when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.“
„Do you think you are protecting somebody by taking away seven words?“
„After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we’re dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.“
„Let’s not be too rough on our own ignorance; it’s what makes America great!“
„You say your life’s a bum deal ‘n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain’t even got no deal at all. ‘Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An’ Number One ain’t you. You ain’t even Number Two!“
„Every socialistic type of government… produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it’s more repressive than any other kind of government.“
„So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’Hopin’ for the bestEven think I’ll go to prayin’Every time I hear ’em sayin’That there’s no way to delayThat trouble comin’ every dayNo way to delayThat trouble comin’ every day“
„The creation and destruction of harmonic and ‘statistical’ tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and ‘regular’ throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only “good guys” in it, or eating cottage cheese.“
„I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.“
„We’re not talking light-hearted foolishness here — when we go for stupid we go for BIG STUPID — like people who shoot at you on the freeway, or the Rambos and Rambo-ettes who blow people away in shopping malls and fast-food restaurants with automatic weapons.“
„The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe … I really think that. … When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun…“
„In the fight between you and the world, back the world.“
„Why should I smile when I’m sitting here with you?“
„I’ve smoked ten marijuana cigarettes in my life, and probably the last time I had one near my face was twelve, fifteen years ago. And the reason I did was because, since I do smoke, people would say, “Here, smoke this, you’ll get high.” So I smoked it, and it gave me a sore throat and made me sleepy. And I must either presume that that’s what high means, or something was wrong. But I’ve never had a positive result from smoking marijuana. It just wasn’t my cup of tea. And I never used LSD, never used cocaine, never used heroin or any of that other stuff.“
„The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.“
„Look here brother, who you jivin’ with that cosmik debris?“
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