"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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"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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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment."

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"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."

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"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."

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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."

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"It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs."

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"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."

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"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."

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"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."

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"If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same."

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"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."

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"The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years."

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"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."

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"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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"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."

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"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."

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