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"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
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"Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive."
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"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."
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"I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!"
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
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"I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!"
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"I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math."
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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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"By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?"
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"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me."
Chance
"I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night."
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"You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground."
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"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
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"When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste."
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"I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills."
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"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life."
Life
"My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project."
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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
Singing
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