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" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "
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" When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. "
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" Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. "
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" Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. "
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