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"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference."

"We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe."

"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."

"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
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"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."


"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."


"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."


"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."


"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."


"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play."


"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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