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"It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things."
Faces

"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."
Football

"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
Audience

"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."
Thought

"You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that."
Time

"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."
Music

"The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years."
Time

"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."
Mother

"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it."
People

"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
Name
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."
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"I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him."
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"She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother."
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"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer."
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