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"  Jimi Hendrix &amp;quot;[I] will put as much effort into this as I can. I&amp;#039;ll fix it so the whole family of Hendrix&amp;#039;s will have the right to wear the Screamin&amp;#039; Eagle patch of the U.S. Army Airborne!  --Jimi Hendrix in Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience (Atria Books, $45), by Janie L. Hendrix and John McDermott  Elliott Smith &amp;quot;You know that song &amp;#039;I Won&amp;#039;t Back Down,&amp;#039; by Tom Petty?... They used to pretend that the song is being sung from the perspective of a piece of poop...&amp;#039;Gonna stand my ground.&amp;#039; &amp;quot;  --Joanna Bolme, Elliott Smith&amp;#039;s friend, in Elliott Smith (Chronicle Books, $30), by Autumn de Wilde   Eric Clapton &amp;quot;[Auntie Nell] suffered from Tourette&amp;#039;s syndrome...her speech was interspersed with the words &amp;#039;fuck&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Eddie&amp;#039;...&amp;#039;Hello, Ric, fuck Eddie. Is your Mum in, fuck Eddie?&amp;#039; I absolutely adored her.&amp;quot;   --Eric Clapton in Clapton: The Autobiography (Broadway Books, $26)  Slash &amp;quot;The truth is, my passion was art. I loved the French Postimpressionist painter Henri Rousseau and, like him, I drew jungle scenes full of my favorite animals.&amp;quot;  --Slash in Slash (HarperEntertainment, $28), by Slash with Anthony Bozza "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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