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“We remain a land of great promise, but we must move on, ... humility in exercising our power around the world.” (unknown)
“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.” (unknown)
“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.” (people)
“I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.” (appearance)
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“But they can't touch me now, and you can't touch me now, they ain't gonna do to me, what I watched them do to you.” (unknown)
“It's just me Lord, pray I'm able” (unknown)
“It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.” (unknown)
“If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.” (desire)
“Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.” (government)
“My god man, you sound like you should be singing in some bar in a backwater town in New Jersey!” (unknown)
“There were ghosts of the eyes of all the boys you sent away, ... They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets.” (unknown)
“It's kind of an iffy proposition,” (unknown)
“Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds. They can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words.” (unknown)
“It was just playing music. I didn't have any intention for it. I knew that I enjoyed making this kind of music. ... It was really just purely for the joy of doing it. It was a lot of fun.” (unknown)
“Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse” (love)
“You're singing in the voice of somebody who lived 100 years ago, some of them three, four hundred years ago.” (song and singing)
“I have no rules left. I don't have to get on the radio. It's wide open for me. The singer-songwriters I admire - Dylan, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie - move forward all the time.” (song and singing)
“I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know? Mrs. McGrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.” (song and singing)
“There's a lot of music we have that cuts right to the heart of what's going on there.” (music)
“I saw things I've never seen in an American city. The criminal ineptitude makes you furious. This is what happens when you play political games with people's lives.” (unknown)
“Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong, they're still there, he's all gone.” (unknown)
“When you make more than $500 a night, you get more than $500 problems.” (money)
“the car represents a set of values, a certain way of looking at the world, and it's something that ha changed as his music has matured, too. He's no ordinary songwriter, that's for sure.” (music)
“Born in the USA.” (unknown)
“I thought I knew exactly how it would sound, but it surprised me, ... It was a nice moment driving back from the city, and it caught me by surprise again. There's no other record (of mine) quite like it ... I never made another one.” (unknown)
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