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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.
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The earth is Godʹs golf ball.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once I rented a log cabin.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Earth ... God's golf ball.
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I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.
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It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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