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"We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol."
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"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."

"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."

"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up."

"With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry."
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"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."

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"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."

"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."

"I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts."

"And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser."

"I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon."
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