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And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

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Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

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I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

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Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

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I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

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But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

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All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

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People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

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I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

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