Episodes
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Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz
S1 E38 - 3m 31s
"If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to jazz." - Dave Brubeck in 2008, Interviewer: John Dankosky WNPR
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Joni Mitchell on Illusions
S1 E33 - 5m 42s
Joni Mitchell in 1986, as told to Joe Smith.
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Ray Bradbury on Madmen
S1 E29 - 5m 12s
"Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself" - Ray Bradbury as told to two college kids on road trip in 1972
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Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty
S1 E28 - 5m 25s
Dolly Parton was not your typical model to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine. But that's just what Dolly did in 1978. She wouldn't take her clothes off, yet that issue still became one of Playboy's most popular issues of all time.
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Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo
S1 E27 - 5m 13s
Lou Reed. Lou Reed. Here we bring you a rarely heard interview Lou recored in 1987. It's vintage Lou. Salty and sweet. Earnest and cocky. Grouchy and kind of endearing. Reed (and his legendary band The Velvet Underground) were those musicians who never got the extensive accolades or awards--nor the riches many of their contemporaries found.
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B.B. King on The Blues
S1 E26 - 5m 38s
Mr. B.B. King. The blues legend says he played 300 nights a year for four-plus decades. That's just ridiculous. We're talking about nearly 15,000 shows. King turns 90 this year and you still just might be able to see him on stage. So what's his secret? We heard some keys to living life to its fullest in a 1986 interview that had been unheard until now.
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Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs
S1 E25 - 5m 36s
Tom Robbins, author of classics like Still Life of Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, takes us inside the mind of a writer who'd prefer writing with a raven quill dipped in lizard blood.
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Robin Williams on Masks
S1 E24 - 5m 16s
"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are part animal.... So you don't take yourself seriously and destroy the species." - Robin Williams in 1991, as told to Lawrence Grobel
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Maya Angelou on Con Men
S1 E23 - 5m 32s
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in 1970
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Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness
S1 E22 - 5m 31s
"Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live." - Philip Seymour Hoffman Conversation with Simon Critchley recorded live at the Rubin Museum of Art on Dec 22, 2012
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David Bowie on Stardust
S1 E21 - 5m 28s
"I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt a little bit out of my element" - David Bowie
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Gene Wilder on The Truth
S1 E20 - 5m 35s
"On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free." - Gene Wilder, March 2007 Conversation with Ms. magazine founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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