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I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.
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In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
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As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
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Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.
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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
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You take my hand,I'll take your handTogether we may get awayThis much madness is too much sorrowIt's impossible to make it today.
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It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. ... Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. ... That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.
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My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
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Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.
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I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
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Old man take a look at my lifeI'm a lot like you.I need someone to love meThe whole day through.Ah, one look in my eyesAnd you can tell that's true.
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We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.
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Holding back is so close to stealing.
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I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.
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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
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I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.
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Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
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I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record "Peace Trail".
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I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.
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Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.
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I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.
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It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
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Out of the blue and into the black
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We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.