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people, and they'd say, "I went to France and those people just rooked me, you know, they'd always take a million dollars. Did you have that experience?" I'd say, "No, I didn't have that experience." When I'd wave, man...I was staying at a hotel in Paris, and I was spending something like 800 or 900 francs a day, and I guess they weren't amazed about that. She looked at me one day and she said, "This is too expensive a place." And she wrote down the address of a little hotel on the East, on the left bank there. She said, "You go there. The food is just delicious, and you'll just love that place." And I found this in everyplace I went, Italy, the same. I went on the Riveria. The most expensive place in the world. The waiters always helped me out. I mean, "No you don't want that on the menu. That's no good." "That's for the Americans." Well, I guess that Mexico feels the same way 'cause it was the same thing. I'd say, you know, I'd meet some Americans, you know, Texans down there, and, Man, I couldn't speak any English. They'd stop me on the street and ask me directions, I don't speak English. No! I'd tell them in English too. 
...Well, I think it's an important gesture. I'm sure that it's going to be controversial gesture for a long time that these artists made, and there are probably other means that probably they could have found...I should we could have found... to make our protests heard. But it's an important gesture being made by artist with their art. I think that's the most 
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