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“I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can”. –John Belushi

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –Jaco Pastorius

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

“There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long, But now I think I’m able to carry on. It’s been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will”. –Sam Cooke

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else”. –Marvin Gaye

“Don’t worry – if there’s a hell below, we all gonna go”. –Curtis Mayfield

“I think that self-reliance is what makes you happy; not having to worry about anything or not depending on anybody besides yourself”. –Bradley Nowell

“If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… It possesses you”. –Frank Sinatra

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics; working within, not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is”. –Cass Elliot

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

“The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hear. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it”. –John Lee Hooker

“The image is one thing and the human being is another… it’s very hard to live up to an image”. –Elvis Presley

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson