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It was about, yeah, it was me, it was like that whole, like, where the veterans fast asleep at the traffic light, all this. It was my own neighborhood I grew up in. The children waiting for the ice cream vendor, you know, that was me and my brother sitting on the curb with our nickels waiting for the... | en | id03701 | male |
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fraught with all kinds of human frailty like he's gonna the greedy ones and the aggressive ones are the ones that are like you know incredibly giving | en | id03701 | male |
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that same ice cream truck that I see. They see their own ice cream truck. That's the magic of songs. About half of what they're hearing is really from their own, I mean, what they see, it's from their own life. | en | id03701 | male |
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Well, I think that some of my favorite songs were written when I was eating brown rice with a little bit of fried egg and a little bit of lemon. | en | id03701 | male |
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Well, Jamaica, say you will, was Britain when I lived in a tiny apartment that only had... It didn't have a refrigerator. | en | id03701 | male |
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means something and that you are able to like. But if somebody else hears that song, they may not see | en | id03701 | male |
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or there's a phrase that goes through your head. I record things all the time so that I won't forget them. | en | id03701 | male |
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learned how to make a lot of rice dishes and like eggs in there and | en | id03701 | male |
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very grateful i'm very grateful that this is what i get to do with my time you know and um you know | en | id03701 | male |
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most important gift I've been given you know is like that I get to be a musician I get to I've been able I've been | en | id03701 | male |
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comfort in knowing that like I'm not there's a connector that's being talked about we all have some common experiences otherwise you would be serializing your own experience and somehow like selling people the images from your own life but it's really that we all have | en | id03701 | male |
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eggs that don't spoil that quickly you know I mean like you know you make the trek to the store I didn't have a car so I would trek to the store and come back with you know like a five pound bag of rice or a twenty pound bag of rice or like a bottle of orange I mean like a bag of groceries you'd want it to last a while because you're schlepping up the stairs and everything | en | id03701 | male |
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way I lived when I wrote that and how I was, what I was reading or how I was living. | en | id03701 | male |
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because it goes that way it doesn't go it's not what I remembered it's what I had first was better and so on | en | id03701 | male |
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I mean, I can remember music, or I can remember a few words that I want to remember. I can't remember the names of people I meet, or sometimes I can't remember the name of a book that I loved. | en | id03701 | male |
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The more you do, the more you want to do it. Music is a self-generating, it's like an engine of possibilities. | en | id03701 | male |
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When I was writing The Pretender, I was already eating in restaurants all the time. | en | id03701 | male |
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I very rarely write a lot of words out without the music. | en | id03701 | male |
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He was a farmer. He was something else, but he only, and he had one chicken, but he gave it to these visitors because of what they represented to him was it was an opportunity to know somebody from another country and to perhaps for his children to benefit by who they were and what they had to offer. That's the plane that I'm interested in, the exchange of. | en | id03701 | male |
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about peoples, the impulse to change the world | en | id03701 | male |
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their car they slept at the end of a road they couldn't drive any further in Morocco and when they woke up in the morning there was a Moroccan gentleman there who insisted on taking them to his house introducing to his family | en | id03701 | male |
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are helpless. Better people than you are helpless. There are people for | en | id03701 | male |
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Well, I think that very often some phrase or some idea comes to me in word form, but almost right away. | en | id03701 | male |
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One time I did on a plane, and when I got off the plane, | en | id03701 | male |
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And I always thought that was fortunate. But if you have an idea, I get a lot of ideas on planes, but you've got to like meet, you take those words and right away they get attached to a piece of music which also starts growing almost at the same rate. And then they help each other by, it's actually easy to write. | en | id03701 | male |
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with disaster, or at least society's inability to deal with disaster, and then really ultimately it's about poverty and about... | en | id03701 | male |
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the musicians I know from other countries are they're they're my teachers | en | id03701 | male |
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return their hospitality. When I went in Spain, I've taken the most incredible places and people stop for a week and take you places you want to go. Here, we're too busy for | en | id03701 | male |
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As a matter of fact, many of the finest people I've ever met are people who have nothing. | en | id03701 | male |
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earthquake it's called standing in the breach it started to be about the the earthquake in haiti and then it right away started being about | en | id03701 | male |
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none of these words would sing in any they were just not they didn't there were nothing there was nothing musical about it so | en | id03701 | male |
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matters of survival, it's like, it's, it's, it's, it's, I, I, I rebel against it. | en | id03701 | male |
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My friends from Spain just showed up and they're like, I just had the best time in my house. | en | id03701 | male |
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much of anything, but it could be all they have. So it's that dichotomy of like, when is something that is... Like, a few friends of mine woke up and there's been | en | id03701 | male |
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They do great work in Haiti and I know people who work in Haiti too and I know the need and I have a project in Haiti. As a matter of fact, I'm going there next week. | en | id03701 | male |
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Yeah, it turned out that I had this time free and they wanted three songs and I said, | en | id03701 | male |
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I'm going to sing a song about Hades, as a matter of fact, called Standing in the Breach. | en | id03701 | male |
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village that were presenting with this concert and we look forward to try to making concerts like this happen in other parts of the country. | en | id03701 | male |
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quietly besides having all this oil in the North Sea Norway has | en | id03701 | male |
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involved in help and the safety plus the fact that it's never been able to pay for itself in the | en | id03701 | male |
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innovation in industry and technology, but in fact we're way behind | en | id03701 | male |
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And that's why I did the solar project at my house. I mean, I drive a Volt, you know, and it's | en | id03701 | male |
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far from that ideal. So I think as long as they can sell people stuff that they don't need, people will, as long as people will buy it, | en | id03701 | male |
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or, like, I can't afford to try this. We have to, that's part of the battle for us, | en | id03701 | male |
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tell you looking out at your beautiful country and know that it's irradiated | en | id03701 | male |
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I think Israel's got a project in the middle of the Mojave or in Nevada or something. I mean, there are companies | en | id03701 | male |
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language. I mean, it's like a love of language. It's knowing that. | en | id03701 | male |
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sort of goes away and there is a space maybe you | en | id03701 | male |
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you're hovering in the space above the music that's being made and it's really | en | id03701 | male |
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technical setting things up to make make the playing situation optimum | en | id03701 | male |
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that explained to me how I felt why I felt that way or what I was going to do about the situation | en | id03701 | male |
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So I would write, and I would just play, and eventually I'd start making something out of it. | en | id03701 | male |
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professionally was I was writing a song and trying to finish the song while I was in a class like a biology class or an algebra class or something | en | id03701 | male |
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was and by the time it became a song it not only described something to me that i | en | id03701 | male |
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that you could say something ultra simple and it would it would | en | id03701 | male |
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that I write are you know they're a particular satisfaction to me to like have figured out how to make some things sound really right really good and maybe | en | id03701 | male |
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But it becomes something that's more emblematic of who you are and your ability to describe the world in terms that you recognize. | en | id03701 | male |
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advanced and it's really become I think almost emblematic of man's ability to love you know I mean there's | en | id03701 | male |
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It's almost just that you hear a phrase, you hear something that catches your ear and you want to... | en | id03701 | male |
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Now the sound looked like 19 to just about anyone | en | id03701 | male |
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came from did farming and made music after they were done farming I don't mean | en | id03701 | male |
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farming and be the guy I mean I don't think although much of the great music | en | id03701 | male |
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Well, actually, I've never wanted to repeat myself, and this idea was instilled in me when I was really... | en | id03701 | male |
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like something that I learned to play on a guitar. It could be that that guitar that I bought three years ago and I never figured out what to do with, I suddenly figured out what it's good for. But music is the thing. It's always been | en | id03701 | male |
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The problem is I don't think I can be the guy out there. | en | id03701 | male |
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If I do, it's that I become conscious of the fact that at this point, | en | id03701 | male |
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many of our great American traditions, you know, like our people that | en | id03701 | male |
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improve upon or add to whatever I've done I don't want to repeat myself and I don't want to do anything | en | id03701 | male |
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It was right after the last time I came to Europe that I changed a lot of musicians | en | id03701 | male |
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out of takes a long time to get back to | en | id03701 | male |
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Even if you make a good record and if it's respected and received well | en | id03701 | male |
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and so many of you know him but who founded Elektra Records on the back of his motorcycle | en | id03701 | male |
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give myself any credit at all it's it's that I got them to play what they wanted to play | en | id03701 | male |
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beginning you'd make records and they would expect you to make three of them in a three hour session. | en | id03701 | male |
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brother kept learning these great rock and roll songs that he got off the radio but he wound up | en | id03701 | male |
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playing them at home on the piano by himself, and I sort of learned to do that from him. | en | id03701 | male |
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It's difficult to add to that, but actually when you write | en | id03701 | male |
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All night, I just want to thank everybody that ever came and played and sang and worked on my records for what they gave my music | en | id03701 | male |
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I would also like to thank my partner of 12 years. | en | id03701 | male |
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me and the Eagles and David Blue and so many others a place to begin making our own recordings on our own terms. | en | id03701 | male |
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nuanced and unusual and one of a kind but who are not necessarily going to | en | id03701 | male |
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and he would explain he only needed one hit from the doors to pay for the hundred other records that he would make of people | en | id03701 | male |
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is a force and a power for good in this world. | en | id03701 | male |
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Those who sell the most are who make the biggest splash in the mainstream media, but those people whose work stands for what they do. | en | id03701 | male |
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in the company of these people who have made such a difference in my life and who | en | id03701 | male |
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Taught me to play piano and allowed me to sort of appropriate his piano style. | en | id03701 | male |
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make the top of the charts. And so I'd like to thank him for instilling that | en | id03701 | male |
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would be my longtime collaborator and musical mentor, David. | en | id03701 | male |
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is a very empowering thing I'm happy to have had a lifetime do it thank you for this job and | en | id03701 | male |
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About music and politics and I answer but it's actually not something I said It's something little Steven said and which I generally give him credit for when I when I do say it But for some reason tonight in this book is not credited, but it's something he said which is what is more personal than your politics | en | id03701 | male |
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and help popularize what I was doing and help communicate the nuances of my music. I'd like to thank all the DJs and people in radio, people, the self-empowered people who played what they wanted to play and played me. I thank you for that. | en | id03701 | male |
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quoted as having said in your program, it'll say that I often am asked | en | id03701 | male |
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And to Jack Holtzman who they got to sign, they got him to sign me to a publishing contract. And Jack Holtzman was the record man that | en | id03701 | male |
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I'd like to reiterate what he said when he quoted John and say, war is over if you want it. | en | id03701 | male |
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I feel fortunate to have grown up in the bosom of a bunch of friends | en | id03701 | male |
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and he used to i mean he literally used to take the records on the back of his vespa to the various record stores in new york and who was a mentor to so many folk musicians and at the same time he was doing that | en | id03701 | male |
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Like, why did, like, if I was singing in the right range for the high notes, | en | id03701 | male |
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things, I'm a really hard worker. I've kind of got an elephant's memory, too, for a phrase or, you know. | en | id03701 | male |
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Just at night when everybody else was asleep, I would be at the kitchen table because I couldn't be in back with the bedrooms. | en | id03701 | male |
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first demo or first recordings of something and realize | en | id03701 | male |