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I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.

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There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

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Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

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The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.

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The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.

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I appreciate all of your expressions of concern, and I appreciate all of your expressions of love. It has been like a fire to my heart.

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They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

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I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

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I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

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I'm basically a starving artist.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 15th, 1946

Died: December 8th, 2015

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