"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."

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"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble."

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"I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people."

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"Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity."

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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

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"I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers."

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"Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous."

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"When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that."

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"There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one."

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"There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young."

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"Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started."

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