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"(About Matteo Salvini) He always makes people laugh, like a fart. I imagine Salvini in government in six years' time: he will have reintroduced the racial laws of Fascism. [About the failure to grant a visa for Nigeria] He's lucky, if someone translates what he says to the Nigerians, I don't know if he'll get back from Nigeria."

"Mi serve sentirti Rino | presto al mattino | per non sentirmi solo e per sentire un po' di orgoglio per il posto dove sono nato, vivo e scrivo.'"

"You're like a beautiful song by a band you hate, you confuse me but I can't help listening to you."

"I have always respected Mango, a virtuoso and respectable singer, always on stage performing his art, right up to the end."

"(In memory of his cat) […] you saved my life. Perhaps it may seem strange to some to talk about a cat in this way […]. But then again, you always understood me. Perhaps not my words, but my soul — yes, that always. […] No matter what happened to me during the day, whether I came home a winner or a loser — you were there. You were always there. […] You were there even when I thought that the only way to forget, to numb the pain, was alcohol. You helped me quit. Without you, I wouldn't be here today. That's why, the day I found out you were ill, I was so scared. […] Almost everyone told me you wouldn't make it. But I knew you wouldn't give up. All it took was giving you back 1/10 of what you gave me over the years to see you come back to life. Some people told me that the treatment was “exaggerated”. That you're not a person, but “just a cat”. They're right, you're just a cat. In fact, no person has ever given me what I got from you. Because that's how cats are. And I know you would have taken care of me as I did with you. I know, because you already did. And now that you've lost the battle, I miss you every day."

"Rino still gives me energy and anger. He had a rock attitude and a hoarse voice, he was an outsider even in terms of composition. :*Quoted in Luigi Bolognini, “”Rap' n' roll J-Ax: Now I want to understand if I'm really a rebel“”, “'la Repubblica”', 12 June 2012."

"In Italy, it seems that the Rome are always to blame for everything. And the most unforgivable thing is the rise of Matteo Salvini. Explain to me why if an Italian goes abroad, it's a brain drain, but if a young person comes to us, they're a black person stealing our jobs, even if they have two degrees."

"Rino mi piaci un casino | tanto quanto mi piacevi da bambino, | mamma dice che eri quello che preferivo | perché eri il solo colorato in un cantautorato grigio."

"For years, bullies made me believe that I was worthless and that my soul was insignificant until I defeated them with music. I want to convey this message to young people who are bullied because they are gay or for other reasons: persevere and you too will defeat them. And to the friends of those who are bullied: be good allies and help your friends. Your soul is at stake."

"Il tempo è giustiziere Rino | ora i tuoi dischi suonano come se fossero appena usciti. | Rino, hai vinto tu."

"C'è un proverbio che ho sentito a The Voice: | «Tira più un Pelù di Litfiba | che un carro di buoi»."

"(Talking to Red Ronnie about choosing vegetarianism) At first, as I told you, I tried it out of curiosity, to see if what you had been telling me so emphatically for a month was true. I tried it and saw that it was true. Continuing with this choice is a personal matter, but in my opinion, you have to see things for yourself before you can choose, right? We are not given the opportunity to choose; we are brought up to eat meat, so I advise everyone to try it and then choose, because in reality you feel – I don't want to say better or worse – but different."

"When we first heard Giorgio Gaber's songs, it was electrifying. What we are trying to do in our career, he was already doing perfectly in the early 1970s. Playing rock, we could say. Not rock misunderstood as self-destruction, but rock as a language. A language that allows you to respond deeply to anyone who prevents the individual from being free: practically, culturally, intellectually."

"J-Ax, Dalla strada al palco (pp. 31-32); in Andrea Pedrinelli (editor), Gaber, Giorgio, il Signor G. Raccontato da intellettuali, amici, artisti, Kowalski, Milano, 2008. ISBN 978-88-7496-754-4 (in Italian)."

"Gaber didn't say “I'm a singer-songwriter”, he didn't take sides. He took what he heard on the street and gave it back to the people honestly, with his own personal touch. Which was a cool touch, from someone who knew how to tell the truth to those in power."

"“'Time is the avenger Rino | now your records sound as if they had just been released. | Rino, you won.”'"

"...and he has calluses on his heart, caused by the recoil of the rifle (from Even if the world has, n. 2)"

"I spend the day on a PC justifying on the left like after Moro | but then my boss says: No | I want it like this with the center always justified as after Moro. (from Colorful crumbs, n. 7)"

"And say any word, start with something simple, it's the first thing you say, no one knows what was there before."

"If I close one eye I travel half the world at least I dream half of it. (from In Loop, n. 5)"

"I would like to keep God company but the journey terrifies me. (from Odio Volare, n. 1)"

"I hear the creaking when the world turns. | God, can't you hear the background noise? (from Even if the world has, n. 2)"

"Stay behind me and I'll ask the elevator operator which floor it goes to goes to the piano bar, good, | we follow it up to Jesus and down to Beelzebub | and then picnic on the intermediate floors | always full as long as you believe what you don't see. (from In Loop, n. 5)"

"If something can go wrong it will certainly go wrong, I am a magnet for disasters. (from Odio Volare, n. 1)"

"Sooner or later I laugh about it cyclically because the facial expressions are finished. (from Even if the world has, n. 2)"

"Love is that intertime, in which someone | holds you back and pulls you into a little room, | and you, you try to escape and stay | independent in the world but when, | you think again, you think again and you withdraw and you | it seems appropriate to stay, because the world is not that big, | and the aforementioned little room, it's not that bad. | And then you turn and kiss and bless those who respect you but | fades away and you discover that no one respects you or cares for you and you were alone | the sweater got caught in the handle. (from Love is that intertempo, n. 4)"

"I like women who pretend to be crazy, | but it all comes down to me if they've been redone, | because if you wanted your breasts to be big, giant, | who knows what you expect from my underwear. (from I like women, n. 6)"

"The days all end the same, | and memories are colored crumbs, | you find them in bed and they don't let you sleep, | because you never know whether to taste them or sweep them away. (from Coloured Crumbs, n. 7)"

"The world turns and blurs the poses. (from Colorful crumbs, n. 7)"

"Dinners all end the same, the guests are gone, they clear your table and you can't eat anymore. | And maybe you would have liked to finish drinking, you would have kept the glass, nothing to do, they'll clear the table for you, | you only take home the colored crumbs that still remain anchored to your cardigan and maybe you would have liked to finish drinking, hold the glass, clear my cardigan, baby! (from Colorful Crumbs, n. 7)"

"And there is no end to beauty, but it's a lie, and I could explain it in words, but a photograph of the sun, no matter how hard you try, doesn't heat up the same."

"Don't leave me at this miserable table, | now you've turned 30, turn 31 and it's morning! | Let's get the last liter of wine | and then let's go together with Falcone and Borsellino. (from Take D'Amico's hand, n. 7)"

"I have also read the notes written in small print but on the martial arts manuals, you can't find any chapter that avoids avoids avoids seems ridiculous. (from Van Damme (Saddam), n. 5 )"

"But you're leaving my friend, where are you going? | Stay with me and cheers while there is some. | It will end between us anyway sooner or later and without ifs, | but at least give me time to show you the worst of me. (from Ma dove vai (Veronica), n. 8)"

"But then when I see her I don't think anymore | and I don't know if she is far or close, like children the TV. (from Malpensandoti , n. 4)"

"There is still no wool that warms fresh, | the only one to succeed for now is vodka. (from Malpensandoti, n. 4)"

"Even though Malpensa is in the countryside, there is no one to sell a bouquet of flowers. (from Malpensandoti, n. 4)"

"Van Damme! No martial art can stop love from hurting you. | Van Damme, no martial art can prevent love. (from Van Damme (Saddam), n. 5)"

"I'm just a comedian like Dante, | you are just one like many. | But if you leave my eyes will turn red like cheeks, | and the cheeks will become swollen like oranges, | because if I'm alone I'll devour everything | then I suddenly lose weight when I fall in love again. (from Ma dove vai (Veronica), n. 8)"

"I go to the entrance and am about to enter. | The automatic mechanism, the doors that open to let me pass makes me think: | any goodbye, even between two doors, is traumatic. (from Malpensandoti, n. 4)"

"How is it possible that three worlds are not enough to find what you are really looking for, | and the longest love lasts a couple of seconds, you always love that makes you suffer and makes third parties suffer. | Love takes away hunger, you stay fast so you drink a sea to fill the empty spaces, | but salt hurts even more, to survive everyone seeks their own Pozzeto like Cochi. (from Malpensandoti, n. 4)"

"God, how much cold blood it takes waiting for the woman you love, especially if you are not sure of love, and if she has been distant for months. (From Malpensandoti, n. 4 )"

"Don't be scared if I hurt you because | I do to others what I would like them to do to me, | complementary poles, you hate me, I love you, we are like dictionaries, we are Gods | synonyms and antonyms. (from Van Damme (Saddam), n. 5)"

"Sometimes just a kiss is worth the trip or the flight, it's worth the cost of the ticket like Grace Kelly in slow mo! (from Van Damme (Saddam), n. 5)"

"I recognize myself in my album only if I see myself reflected on the back of the CD. (from Prendi per mano D'Amico, n. 7)"

"It's useless to keep a reserve anyway, | you never know what life has in store anyway, | anyway you can't even save the reserve when life cuts off "the Bull" like Superga! (from Prendi per mano D'Amico, n. 7)"

"My biological clock strikes June, | but if you leave my eyes will become autumn, | and the leaves will fall on my cheeks | and the eyes will become red like oranges. (from Ma dove vai (Veronica), n. 8)"

"Don't leave me alone, as happened to God | who doesn't have a TV, and even if he has many friends | they keep him company only on holidays. (from Odio Volare, n. 1)"

"Whoever is afraid of the void will not reach the top | I'm also afraid of the void that exists between one step and another. (from Odio Volare, n. 1)"

"I prefer to travel by post | and do not leave the surroundings and turn around myself | like the reflection or the time or the people alive or the hourglass that impassively turns on the axis, | she doesn't look down and isn't afraid of what those who torment her think, | how I would like him to teach me not to fear the looks of my neighbor, | me when I walk alone on Viale della Centrale! I, in order not to meet anyone, you know, chase the shadow that is in front of me! and she fits into every hole like gloves, I follow her if I fear she's tampering with some trains. (from Because you never know (what happens to you), n. 3)"