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"I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn."
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"I think most musicians do like to have a laugh."
Humor
"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."
Business
"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."
Success
"Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes."
Music
"But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs."
Writing
"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"
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"I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1."
Music
"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."
Fact
"So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs."
Fun
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