Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 19, 2023

"I just tried to come up with some honest songs. I was writing about real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually - usually sometime around 3 in the morning - I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song." - John Prine

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2023

"I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians." - Paul Kantner, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2023

"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. If you can remember anything about the '60s, you weren't really there." - Paul Kantner, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 17, 2023

"Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings." - Paul Kantner, born this day in 1941.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 12, 2023

"I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know." - Nick Lowe

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 9, 2023

"I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll." - John Cale, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 9, 2023

"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke." - Ornette Coleman, born this day in 1930.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 8, 2023

"I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than death." - Gary Numan

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 6, 2023

"I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist." - Greg Graffin

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 5, 2023

"When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15, they changed the leaving age to 16. When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory." - Mark E. Smith, born this day in 1957.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 3, 2023

RIP David Lindley. Thanks for everything.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Mar 2, 2023

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 28, 2023

"My ultimate aim in life was never to be a pop star. The future as a Rolling Stone is very uncertain." - Brian Jones, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 27, 2023

"Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents." - Jeff Beck

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 26, 2023

"There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at." - Johnny Cash, born this day in 1932.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 25, 2023

"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." - George Harrison, born this day in 1943.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 22, 2023

"You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier." - Mark Lanegan, lost one year ago today....and I'm still absolutely crushed.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 20, 2023

"If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you." - Kurt Cobain, born this day in 1967.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 13, 2023

"Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy." - Peter Gabriel, born this day in 1950.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Feb 12, 2023

"One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music." - Ray Manzarek, born this day in 1939.