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The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try ...more

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Talk about a dream,try to make it real

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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

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The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

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Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when yo...more

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As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one th...more

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As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.