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" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "

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" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "

" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "

" America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds. "

" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "

" Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. "

" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "

" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "

" I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with. "

" To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. "

" When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. "

" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "

" I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. "

" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "

" When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. "

" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "

" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "

" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "

" In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. "

" Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. "

" If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it. "

" Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? "

" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "

" Sleep is for squares. "

" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "

" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "

" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "

" When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. "

" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "

" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "