"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"

-- Tom T. Hall

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“I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van [Morrison] on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.”
“You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live.”
“Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.”
“You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice”
“The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.”
“I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.61, The Floating Press
“Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”
“Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.”

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