"Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic]...there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why."

-- Jorma Kaukonen

#Song Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Writing Quotes

“When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and it makes you get yourself in gear. It's healthy competition that helps make some great music.”
“Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.”
“Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.”
“Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.”
“Beauty is embarrassing.”
“People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.”
“Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.”
“A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process”

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