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" I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you. "

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" I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! "

" Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense. "

" The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. "

" What's really fun is to write under different names. "

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" I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. "

" All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something. "

" I really don't have that much interest in stardom. "

" I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. "

" I never liked mellow sounding guitar. "

" It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing. "

" When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone. "

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" I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. "

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" The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell. "