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I Learned That When Something Just Has To Be Said To Move The Discussion Along, Or Broaden It Or Deepen It, If I Can Just Keep My Mouth Shut For Five Minutes A Student Will Say It. So For Me A Lot Of Teaching Is About Keeping My Mouth Shut.

Rock 'n' Roll Is A Combination Of Good Ideas Dried Up By Fads, Terrible Junk, Hideous Failings In Taste And Judgment, Gullibility And Manipulation, Moments Of Unbelievable Clarity And Invention, Pleasure, Fun, Vulgarity, Excess, Novelty And Utter Enervation.

You're Going To React To A Painting In A Way That The Painting Demands You React.

I Never Find Myself Even Catching Lyrics Until Something In The Sound Has Taken Me Captive. Thinking About Anything Else Is Just The Pleasurable Byproduct Of Wow.

If 'mystery Train' Is My Nixon Book And 'lipstick Traces' My Reagan Book, 'invisible Republic' Is My Bill Clinton Book. I Really Liked Clinton. He Made Me Proud To Be Part Of This Country Again. For All Of His Failings, The Way He Put All That He'd Done In Jeopardy, I Supported Him From Beginning To End.