"The problems with celebrity and rock and roll start with the fact that
nowadays it gets way too big too fast. Back in the Fifties and Sixties, rock
and roll was 'big' but it was only 'big' to people who cared about it. Not it's
big to people who don't care about it. So they can begin to understand it.
They just make ill-informed judgements on performers without first comprehending
why or what it was that made the person famous in the first place.
In the Sixties there was a bond between the artists and the audience. It's
harder to see now because so much these days is simply down to image projection.
But today's pessimistic bands have a vision and an attitude that's unified their
generation just like the 'peace and love' groups helped unify the Sixties
generation." 1995
tom
"PEACE is Patriotic"
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POLITICS... "It (the size of the defense budget) is crazy. It's fucking nuts. At least in our country we have the fucking freedom to stand up and say it's...
POLITICS... "I think it's time to be positive. I think if all the hippies and everything from the Sixties, if they're still complaining about every little...
POLITICS... "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing that we're all just part of nature and we're all...
... source of creation, realizing that we're all just part of nature and we're all animals. We're very highly evolved and we should be very responsible for...
POLITICS... "I'm the same guy I always was. I don't care. Maybe they thought because country music is country music that I was a right-winger. I don't know....
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... making sure the family was secure. And I related to Reagan's originl concept of big government and the federal programs fading away so that communities...
POLITICS... "I was very disillusioned with Jimmy Carter. On a political level, I don't think we ever should have given back the Panama Canal. I just have a...
... level, I don't think we ever should have given back the Panama Canal. I just have a gut feeling that that was a huge mistake made out of guilt, not out of...
POLITICS... "I think Reagan really did want to do the things that he said he wanted to do. I was disappointed in many of the things that happened during his...
... wanted to do. I was disappointed in many of the things that happened during his administration. But I thought that the ideas that were behind a lot of...
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POLITICS... "My political views are meandering at best. I don't really see much difference between the Democrats and the Republicans; they just tell different...
POLITICS... "Now, everybody wants democracy. Now the Communists think it might be worth a shot, y'know. I don't want to burst the balloon, but freedom has...
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