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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."
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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."
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"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."
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"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."
Football
"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
Name
"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."
Being
"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."
Thought
"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
Language
"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."
Music
"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
Audience
"Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better."
Now
"It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things."
Faces
"It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me."
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