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" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "

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" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "

" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "

" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "

" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "

" Van Gogh was impulsive. "

" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "

" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "

" I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. "

" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "

" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "

" You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. "

" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "

" Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "

" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "

" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "

" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "

" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "

" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "

" It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. "

" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "

" Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. "

" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "

" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "

" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "

" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "