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"You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones."

"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good."

"Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do."
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"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."

"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."

"If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."

"Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way."

"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."

"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."
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