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	So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.   
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	The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.   
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	The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.   
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	Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.   
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	I still like to get carried away - but passively.   
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	I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.   
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	There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.   
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	Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.   
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	I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.   
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	When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.   
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	You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.   
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	I'm a grandfather now.   
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	You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.   
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	I think I surprise myself.   
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	Does anyone remember laughter?   
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	We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?   
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	Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.   
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	I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.   
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	People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.   
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	The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.   
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	It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.   
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	I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.   
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	Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.   
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	To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.   
