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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."
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"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."
"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
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