"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."

-- Levon Helm

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“To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Dec 14, 2016
“Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.”
“Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.”
“I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.”
“Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.”
“At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different”
“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.”
“My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.”

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