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Before industrial civilization, local and regional communities made their own music, their own entertainment.

— Robert Crumb The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

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I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Industrial civilization figured out how to manufacture popular culture and sell it back to the people. You have to marvel at the ingenuity of it!

The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Me, me, me...myself & I...oh no!!! Trapped in my stupid self!

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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