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" You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. "

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" I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. "

" I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M. "

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" If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. "

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" Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. "

" Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. "

" We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. "

" The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. "

" My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult. "

" You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. "

" George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. "

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" I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. "

" Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it. "

" But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. "

" I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. "

" Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. "

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" George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him. "