"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
-Richard Thompson
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.“
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"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
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