"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."

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"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

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"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."

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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."

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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

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"It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have."

Singing

"It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released."

Time

"I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway."

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"I've never stopped learning."

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"Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female."

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"I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida."

Country

"If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago."

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"I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while."

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"I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning."

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"I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played."

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