I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
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And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.
He toes that line so well, where he's able to make something compelling and profound and smart that's also so on the verge of making people hate him.
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
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Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and he's said nice things about me, you know.
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