Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
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I've never bothered much about the past, I'm always in the middle of the next step and so the past is really scattered.Roy Harper
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.
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I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words... and it's gonna stay there.
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I've never known anything but emotional turmoil... I go from day to day in a kind of frenzied state. I can't wait to do this, that and the other.
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In a lot of the things I write, I aim for timelessness. It's not really that hard to do. When you've got something in your mind you have to impart, you're not thinking about Madonna or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bryan Adams or anyone who inhabits the popularized world.
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I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.
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Oswald Chambers
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