“I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.”
Business
“In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.”
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“I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.”
Nature“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.”
War“I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.”
Home“Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.”
Success“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.”
Nature“I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.”
Age“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.”
Poetry“I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.”
Respect“I see music as fluid architecture.”
Architecture“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.”
Religion“I hate show business.”
Business“There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.”
Music“I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.”
Music“To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.”
Music“We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.”
War“In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.”
Music“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”
Nature“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
Sympathy“The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.”
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