Elvin Bishop Quotes
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.
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Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.
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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
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Western art has a certain relationship to nature.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.
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When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
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the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
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I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it... I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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I fooled around and fell in love.
