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“I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice is something that belongs to West African culture. When you go to the north of Mali, in the past it was just the singer and one instrument player. We never really did have that on our CDs. On some other songs, like "Laare Yoo," we have a whole section of hoddu, something like four of them playing together.”
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“What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.”
Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
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“Impossible to see, the future is.”
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“I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.”
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“The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.”
Source : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.87, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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“Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.”
Source : Ed Buckbee, Wally Schirra (2005). “The Real Space Cowboys”, Collectors Guide Pub
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“Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.”
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“I was always a very happy, optimistic person.”