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“ If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. ”

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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.

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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

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One of the great things about songwrighting, it's not an intellectual experience

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