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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. . . . Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

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People deserve. . . the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

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Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

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I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band to be moved, for something to happen to them.

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I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

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I'm in search of how to take the stuff I've written and make sure the audience hears it fresh again. It's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it.

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It was a show that could have the audience singing along to a joyful Blinded by the Light ... The Promised Land.

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I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

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When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

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You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

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When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise.

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You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright.

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got a wife and kids in baltimore jack, i went out for a ride and i never went back.

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Born in the USA.

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Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

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The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, ... For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about -- namely freedom.

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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

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My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

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Everyone remembers the experience quite truly, ... And everyone was centered around this thing, that we suffered. No one forgot that. Everyone had that in common.

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It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

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