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1 " Like the Rolling Thunder Revue, The Last Waltz was fueled by cocaine. 'It was ankle deep,' says Michael McClure, who read poetry as part of the concert. 'When I look at that film, I get a coke high.' Backstage there was a cocaine room, painted white and decorated with noses cut out of Groucho Marx masks. A tape played sniffing noises. Neil Young came out to sing 'Helpless' with a white lump hanging from his nose. The producers had to hire a Hollywood optical company to have the lump removed from the film. "
― Howard Sounes , Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
2 " I do believe that it takes a strong dose of alienation to make a good artist or writer in the modern world. You can’t be too well-adjusted and still have anything interesting to say. "
― Howard Sounes , Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
3 " You will always be Mrs West, all over the world. That is important to me and to you. "
― Howard Sounes , Fred & Rose
4 " she picked him up by the neck and throttled him, actually lifting his body off the floor. "
5 " He was a very tenderhearted guy - not towards people necessarily, but towards goldfish. "
― Howard Sounes
6 " The Bank of England distributes the nation’s money regionally in this way to avoid the danger of a single calamitous incident at one building destroying its stock of bank notes. This is important because, despite cheques and plastic, the public still uses a vast amount of cash. Approximately £37 billion is fluttering around the national economy daily in paper money. "
― Howard Sounes , Heist: The True Story Of The World's Biggest Cash Robbery
