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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
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"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
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"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."
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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
Singing
"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."
Music
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
Thought
"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."
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"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."
Culture
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
Music
"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas."
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"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."
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"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance."
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"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."
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"I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."
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"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."
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