Seymour Simon Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	The golden age is before us, not behind us.	Aging
2	Dissent does not include the freedom to destroy the system of law which guarantees freedom to speak, assemble and march in protest. Dissent is not anarchy.	Dissent
3	[Rock 'n' roll] really is not given to thinking--and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinki	Music
4	Instead of thinkin in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those differen	Music
5	I didn't want to repeat the same notes in the second verse that I used in the first, so I wrote out all the notes of the song and all the notes that were missing in the scale, given that there are twelve notes from octave to octave. All those notes that w	Music
6	I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don't know why I'm writing what I'm writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start t	Writing
7	I have gone through different phases in my music writing. There was a time when I used a little exercise--incorporating all of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale--to get me going. I used this technique for a while, but I don't any longer because I am	Music
8	This is near enough true bliss. Song 'Look at that' on CD 'You're the one'	Music

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