My vote:
Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze"
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I would use this if someone were ever to ask me, "What is rock music?"
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The Beatles are exempt from this consideration due to my Beatlemaniac status. I would go out of my mind choosing a "best" of anything.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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