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"Some folks thought Rahsaan Roland Kirk's playing multiple horns at once was a gimmick. Granted, the guy looked like a madman with all sorts of woodwinds strapped around him, with maybe a tenor sax or manzello and stritch (both obscure saxophones) in his mouth at the same time, but Kirk was a hell of an improviser, often harmonizing with himself. There's a live recording of Kirk playing "Sentimental Journey" on one horn and Dvorak's "New World Symphony" on the other, and Kirk said it's splitting the mind into two parts. "It's like making one part of your mind say, 'Ob-la-di' and make the other part of your mind say 'What does it mean'?" Not only was Kirk a damn fine saxophonist but his flute playing, while scatting, heavily influenced Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull."

"I must say that I tended to rise to the occasion more when there was a programmatic theme, and you can start to visualize things easier that was as opposed to going from one tune to another, without ever getting anywhere. If you are thinking about writing a suite then it's more of an inspirational challenge I think. I must be honest and say that I did those four Moon Suite pieces very quickly. It wasn't unusual for everything to be last minute and I was constantly finishing off the last one for the copyists to be able to bring it to the studio half an hour before the end of the session."

"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."

"Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid."

"My principle is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism."

"'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'"

"Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me."

"Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God."

"On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him (Poe) was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet."

"On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt."

"On William Morris - He caught a crystal cupful of the yellow light of sunset, and persuading himself to dream it wine, drank it with a sort of smile."

"On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray."

"O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead! The time needs heart — 'tis tired of head."

"And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred: O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word."

"Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn."

"The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West."

"Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain."

"The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time."

"Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud."

":3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good."

":4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground, and a host of others likened unto his kind."

":5 And these lesser men Man did cast into the void. And some were burned; and some were put apart from their kind."

":6 And Man became the God that he had created and with his miracles did rule over all the earth."

":7 But as all these things did come to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on within all men: even within Aqualung."

":8 And man saw it not."

":9 But for Christ's sake he'd better start looking."

"I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink."

"Oh father high in heaven — smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games — his women and his gun."

"I don't think it's very easy to make friends with musicians. We're all a bit paranoid. It soon becomes very heavy."

":2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man."

"The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having been naughty."

"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."

"The place where I come from is a small town. They think so small; They use small words -But not me. I'm smarter than that. I worked it out. I've been stretching my mouth To let those big words come right out."

"We do what we're told, Told to do."

"Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree. Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin' the tree."

"Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life. Waiting your time, you're more than just a wife. You don't want to do what your mother has done, She has done. This is your life, this new life has begun. It's your day - a woman's day. It's your day - a woman's day."

"Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave. Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave."

"There's nothing to gain when there's nothing to be lost. There's nothing to gain if you stay behind and count the cost. Make the decision that you can be who you can be, You can be. Tasting the fruit come to the Liberty Tree."

"Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you. Changing your ways, more than any man can do. Open your heart, show him the anger and pain, so you heal. Maybe he's looking for his womanly side, let him feel."

"The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight. In search of you, I feel my way, through the slowest heaving night. Whatever fear invents, I swear it makes no sense. I reach through the border fence. Come down, come talk to me."

"And in this moment, I need to be needed. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. 'Cause I love to be loved. I love to be loved. I love to be loved. Yes, I love to be loved."

"This old familiar craving. I've been here before, this way of behaving. Don't know who the hell I'm saving anymore. Let it pass, let it go, let it leave. From the deepest place I grieve. This time I believe And I let go..."

"I caught sight of my reflection; I caught it in the window. I saw the darkness in my heart; I saw the signs of my undoing. They had been there from the start, And the darkness still has work to do. The knotted chord's untying. They're heated and they're holy. Oh they're sitting there on high. So secure with everything they're buying."

"In the blood of Eden, Lie the woman and the man. With the man in the woman, And the woman in the man."

"Give me steam. And how you feel to make it real; Real as anything you've seen. Get a life with this dreamer's dream."

"Don't talk back; Just drive the car. Shut your mouth; I know what you are. Don't say nothing; Keep your hands on the wheel. Don't turn around; This is for real. Digging in the dirt. Stay with me, I need support. I'm digging in the dirt To find the places I got hurt. Open up the places I got hurt."

"From the pain come the dream. From the dream come the vision. From the vision come the people. From the people come the power. From this power come the change."

"So what's one little kiss, one tiny little touch? Aah, he's wanting it so much. I swear that this is royal blood, running through my skin. Oh, can you see the state I'm in? Kiss it better, kiss it better."

"Don't you know that I'm not joking? Aah, you think you won't, I think you will. Don't you know that this tongue can kill? C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. Lady kiss that frog."

"I grieve for you You leave me So hard to move on Still loving what's gone They say life carries on Carries on and on and on and on..."