top of page
.png){kind=small}
"So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it."
Standard
Customized
More
"I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played."
Business
"Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me."
Music
"I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs."
Friendship
"It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before."
Money
"The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs."
Influence
"We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it."
Society
"Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what."
Money
"So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life."
Life
"And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet."
Father
"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."
Rules
bottom of page