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We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

— Jimi Hendrix Dick Cavett interview (1969)

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I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.

I don’t want to be a clown anymore. I don’t want to be a ‘rock and roll star.'

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