"Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me."

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Source : "Musician Alex Chilton dies at age 59". www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

Alex Chilton

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“I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.”
“Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.”
“If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.”
“Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?”
“Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?”
“To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.”
“I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It's perfectly okay to take a book, read it, have a good time, giggle and laugh - and turn off the TV. I love that.”
“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.”

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