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We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
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Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.
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I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
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Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
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I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.
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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
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I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.
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I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
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I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
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I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
John Mellencamp